piddling
音标：
英音/ ˈpɪd(ə)lɪŋ / 美音/ ˈpɪd(ə)lɪŋ /
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
That is a piddling controversy compared with his claim that the election system overseen by the states is somehow riddled with fraud.
与他声称各州监督的选举制度在某种程度上充斥着欺诈行为的说法相比，这是一个无聊的争议。
—Washington Post
In January, Hogan called on schools to reopen for hybrid instruction by March 1, but these five districts are taking until mid-April or later to return all students for a piddling few days a week.
1 月份，霍根呼吁学校在 3 月 1 日之前重新开放进行混合教学，但这五个学区要到 4 月中旬或晚些时候才能让所有学生每周返回几天。
—Washington Post
And if a piddling portion of materials are covered by attorney-client privilege, there’s no need to halt the investigation as a whole to identify them.
如果一小部分材料属于律师-委托人保密特权，则无需停止整个调查来识别它们。
—Washington Post
基本释意：
adjective
(informal) small and of little importance
琐屑的；无用的；不重要的
同义词：
fiddling,footling,lilliputian,little,niggling,petty,picayune,piffling,trivial
短释义：
Why does English have so many words for suggesting that something is contemptibly small? The adjective piddling is a favorite choice when sums of money are concerned; a more dignified, but no less contemptuous word, is paltry. Piddling comes from piddle, which has changed in meaning over the years — in the early 1600’s it meant “pick at one’s food,” while by the late 1700’s it meant “to urinate.”
如果你的兼职工作报酬很低，你可能会形容你的收入微不足道或微不足道。
长释义：
Why does English have so many words for suggesting that something is contemptibly small? The adjective piddling is a favorite choice when sums of money are concerned; a more dignified, but no less contemptuous word, is paltry. Piddling comes from piddle, which has changed in meaning over the years — in the early 1600’s it meant “pick at one’s food,” while by the late 1700’s it meant “to urinate.”
为什么英语中有这么多单词来暗示某事物小得令人鄙视？当涉及到金钱时，形容词“piddling”是最喜欢的选择。一个更庄重但同样轻蔑的词是微不足道的。 Piddling 源自 piddle，多年来它的含义发生了变化——在 1600 年代初，它的意思是“拾取食物”，而到了 1700 年代末，它的意思是“小便”。
文学例句：
He is still unmarried and resides at the Clara White Mission, Jacksonville, Florida, where he receives a email salary for the piddling jobs about the place that he is able to do.
他仍然未婚，居住在佛罗里达州杰克逊维尔的克拉拉怀特教会，在那里他通过电子邮件收到一份工资，因为他能做一些琐碎的工作。
—Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States
From Interviews with Former Slaves
Florida Narratives by Work Projects Administration
Let children, when they versify, stick here And there, these piddling words for want of matter.
让孩子们在写诗的时候，把这些无聊的词留在这里，留在那里，因为缺乏实质内容。
—Spare Hours by Brown, John
How is it possible, woman, in the awful and magnificent times we live in, to be preoccupied exclusively with the piddling?
女人，在我们生活的这个可怕而辉煌的时代，怎么可能只专注于琐事呢？
—U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1974 January – June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
词源：
piddling (adj.)”insignificant, trifling,” 1550s, present-participle adjective from piddle (v.).Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
piddling (adj.)“微不足道的，琐碎的”，1550 年代，来自 piddle (v.) 的现在分词形容词。相关条目及更多
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