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微不足道
Trivial
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
在战争中,重要的事件是由微不足道的原因造成的。
In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.
在更大的事情上,我们是快乐的;引起麻烦的是小事。
There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial.
现在已经没有同样的纪实节目了——儿童电视节目变得越来越琐碎。
Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.
举办聚会是一项微不足道的业余爱好,但它为我的人性联盟卡支付了会费。
If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.
如果我们被琐碎和邪恶所包围,我们很容易与之和平相处。
When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
当一个哲学家说的是真的,那么它就是微不足道的。当他说一些不平凡的事情时,那就是错误的。
A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
一件商品乍一看似乎是一件极其明显的小事。但它的分析表明,这是一件非常奇怪的事情,充满了形而上学的微妙之处和神学上的细微差别。
I feel often that we don't have the right language to talk about emotions in disasters. Everyone is on edge, of course, but it also pulls people away from a lot of trivial anxieties and past and future concerns and gratuitous preoccupations that we have, and refocuses us in a very intense way.
我经常觉得我们没有正确的语言来谈论灾难中的情绪。当然,每个人都处于紧张状态,但它也把人们从许多琐碎的焦虑、过去和未来的担忧以及我们拥有的不必要的关注中抽离出来,并以一种非常强烈的方式重新集中我们的注意力。