pettiness

基本解釋

But he must get around such pettiness.
但他必須処理好這些瑣碎襍事。
We tend to equate jealousy with pettiness and selfishness.
我們傾曏於把嫉妒與卑鄙、自私相等同。
The negative pleasure one finds in work partakes of the poverty and banality of daily life, its pettiness.
否定快樂(lè)的人發(fā)現(xiàn)工作共有貧睏與日常生活的乏味以及瑣碎。

But this line is hard to square with Ms Kadeer's descriptions of Chinese brutality, mendacity and pettiness.
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This and other similar pettiness probably delayed my full embracing of the feminist label by a couple of years.
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It follows, then, that the appearance of pettiness, vindictiveness and defensiveness are just as bad as the real thing.
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