picayune

释义

n.

(原在美国路易斯安那州及南部各州流通的)西班牙小钱币

adj.

同“picayunish”

网络

尤恩；皮卡尤恩；微小的

词形变化

复数：picayunes

在例句中理解 5 句

1. giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction.

   给警察提供一顿免费餐也许违反了法律，但这看起来只是个小小的违反。

2. Through a process of gradual consolidation, New Orleans now has only one major daily, the Times-Picayune.

   通过一系列的逐步的整合过程，新奥尔良现在只有一家主流日报，泰晤士报-皮卡尤恩。

3. insignificant sounds; his response. . . is picayune and unmeaning- R. B. Pearsall.

   没有意义的声音；他的回答……是无聊而无意义的-R.B。毕尔索。

4. "It's not a hotel, " the director of emergency preparedness for St. Tammany parish told the Times-Picayune in 1999.

   “这不是一间旅馆”圣-塔马尼县应急筹备协会的主任在1999年对Times-Picayune报的记者说。

5. Picayune demands that all but confounded the peacetalks.

   这些琐碎的要求只会使和平谈判受挫。