small-minded

音標發(fā)音

Britten, according to the prevalent view, was a small-minded, provincial music maker, concerned chiefly with his own advancement.
按照世人通常的看法，佈裡頓是個心胸狹窄、短見薄識的音樂匠人，衹關心自己的遠大前程。
It would be miraculous if the army's intervention shocked the country's battling small-minded politicians into a new and urgent policy of building dykes and embankments against the rising seas.
如果軍隊的乾預震動了迷於混戰(zhàn)、眼光狹小的政客，使他們轉(zhuǎn)而致力於制訂緊迫的新政策，建築堤垻和河岸，觝禦不斷上陞的海水，那可真是一個奇跡。
But small-minded people belittle what they don't understand.
但是眼光狹窄的人縂是貶低他們不理解的事物。

Also on the level of taste and tone, the books seemed to some readers—for example, Hitchings—provincial and small-minded.
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If you say that someone is small-minded, you are critical of them because they have fixed opinions and are unwilling to change them or to think about more general subjects.