frivolous
音标：
英音/ ˈfrɪvələs / 美音/ ˈfrɪvələs /
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
Earlier this month, Grand Canyon said federal agencies were unfairly targeting the school with “frivolous accusations” in retaliation for an ongoing lawsuit the university filed against the Education Department in 2021.
本月早些时候，大峡谷大学表示，联邦机构以“无意义的指控”针对该学校，这是不公平的，以报复该大学在 2021 年对教育部提起的持续诉讼。
—Washington Times
Mr. Schmitt said taxpayers deserve protection from frivolous government travel expenses.
施密特先生表示，纳税人应该得到保护，免受政府无谓的旅行费用的影响。
—Washington Times
Bowers has called the allegations “frivolous” and untrue.
鲍尔斯称这些指控“无聊”且不真实。
—Washington Times
基本释意：
adjective
not serious in content or attitude or behavior
愚蠢轻浮的，不严肃的；无聊的，不重要的
同义词：
没有找到同义词
短释义：
Frivolous things are goofy, useless, or just plain dumb. The word is often used to describe lawsuits. A frivolous lawsuit has no value and will be a waste of the court’s time. If someone is frivolous, that person shouldn’t be taken seriously because he’s always fooling around and never gets anything done. Frivolous is pretty much the opposite of essential.
琐碎的事情是愚蠢的或不必要的。如果某件事是无意义的，那么你就不需要它。
长释义：
Frivolous things are goofy, useless, or just plain dumb. The word is often used to describe lawsuits. A frivolous lawsuit has no value and will be a waste of the court’s time. If someone is frivolous, that person shouldn’t be taken seriously because he’s always fooling around and never gets anything done. Frivolous is pretty much the opposite of essential.
无聊的事情是愚蠢的、无用的，或者根本就是愚蠢的。这个词经常用来形容诉讼。无聊的诉讼没有任何价值，只会浪费法庭的时间。如果一个人很轻浮，那么这个人就不应该被认真对待，因为他总是在胡闹，从来没有完成过任何事情。琐碎几乎与必要相反。
文学例句：
In fact, Cofield had served years in various prisons for fraud, much of it involving bad checks, and he’d spent his jail time taking law courses and launching what one judge called “frivolous” lawsuits.
事实上，科菲尔德因欺诈罪在不同监狱服刑多年，其中大部分涉及空头支票，他在狱中学习了法律课程，并发起了一位法官称之为“无聊”的诉讼。
—The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The arts that were viewed so highly in Imre were seen as frivolous by those at the University.
在伊姆雷备受推崇的艺术在大学里却被认为是无聊的。
—The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
He was a reader and recognized his habit of reading as obsessive and neurotic, and told himself that if he read something less frivolous than newspapers and magazines he might indeed be better off.
他是一名读者，并认识到自己的阅读习惯是一种强迫症和神经质，并告诉自己，如果他读一些比报纸和杂志更无聊的东西，他的生活可能确实会更好。
—Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel by David Guterson
词源：
frivolous (adj.)mid-15c., from Latin frivolus “silly, empty, trifling, worthless,” diminutive of *frivos “broken, crumbled,” from friare “break, rub away, crumble” (see friable). In law (by 1736), “so clearly insufficient as to need no argument to show its weakness.” Related: Frivolously; frivolousness.Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
frivolous (adj.)mid-15c.，源自拉丁语 frivolus “愚蠢的、空虚的、微不足道的、无价值的”，是 *frivos “破碎的、崩溃的”的小词，源自 friare “打破、擦掉、崩溃”（参见 friable）。在法律上（到 1736 年），“明显不足，无需论证即可表明其弱点”。相关： 轻率;轻浮。相关条目及更多
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