pettifoggery

常見例句

雙語例句

• The hand responds to the heart, the pettifoggery is expressive, is in the folk art essence.
  心手相應，刀筆傳神，為民間藝術中的精華。
• A witty, soft-hearted man of the scholar class (a xiu-cai), he has given up law practice (pettifoggery) to run an inn.
  宋世杰是一個機智的、寬厚的的秀才，他封筆絕訟，經(jīng)營著一家客棧。

權威例句

• The cost of all this pettifoggery is huge—unless, that is, you are a member of one of the cartels that pushes for pettifogging rules or an employee of one of the bureaucratic bodies charged with enforcing them.
  ECONOMIST: The terrible threat of unlicensed interior designers
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