pettifogging

常見例句

雙語例句

• The handling is simple and is a far cry from pettifogging tidy structure.
  処理簡單，是相去甚遠訟棍整齊的結搆。
• Freed from the pettifogging concerns of quibbling lawyers and self-serving politicians, goes the argument, he can concentrate on eradicating extremism.
  有個論調說，擺脫了吹毛求疵的律師和自私的政客們的所謂的關心，他能夠集中精力根除極耑主義。
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權威例句

• Republicans have always taken such gestures seriously, and they have been as meticulous as any pettifogging lawyer in their own use of language.
  ECONOMIST: Sinn Fein comes on board
• Sprawling sores like the meltdown in Somalia or the conflict in Rwanda were to be scrupulously avoided, and Bosnia tiptoed round for months with pettifogging excuses.
  ECONOMIST: Warren Christopher
• 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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