英语单词短语词组“footling”的中文翻译、释义及用法解析-英汉词典

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单词	footling
释义	footling adjective old-fashioned uk /ˈfuː.təl.ɪŋ/us /ˈfuː.t̬əl.ɪŋ/ sillyor notimportant: 愚蠢的；无足轻重的 He could always do somethingusefulinsteadofwastingmytimewith footlingqueries.他总还可以找些有益的事情来做，而不是拿些愚蠢的问题来浪费我的时间。 Synonyms fiddlingmainlyUK little pettydisapproving picayuneUS piddlinginformaldisapproving pifflinginformal trivial SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Of little or less importance be in/undersomeone'sshadowidiom be neither here nor thereidiom be no big dealidiom biggie derisory lowly meaninglessly meaninglessness mere merely minor peripheral petty piffling play second fiddleidiom poxy rinky-dink secondarily subordinate valueless See more results » (Definition offootlingfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press) Examplesoffootling footling I think this is a bad tax for three reasons—first, it is unsound; secondly, it isfootling; and, thirdly, it is politically vicious. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It is doubtful whether thisfootling£13 million will ever be realised. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Why make thisfootlinglittle amendment if the object, even if it is accepted, is to change the sum by such a small amount? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 This is a trivial,footlingway of meeting a great problem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 They are engaged on these variousfootlingpieces of legislation which take up so much of their time. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 They did not bring merely onefootlingquotation but quotation after quotation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 We all getfootlingmatters to deal with. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Today the security case for moving has become afootlingone, but the economic and financial case against moving has become a powerful one. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 This embarrassment has only been surpassed in duration by major procrastination, punctuated with the introduction offootlingmeasures. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It is afootling, pointless treaty, and it was the outcome of afootling, pointless summit that achieved no agreement. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 We are hampered by petty andfootlingrestrictions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It seems to me at the moment that many of these increases are perfectlyfootlingand quite unjustifiable in any real social terms. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Footlingabout with attendance allowances and other allowances is hardly the way to do it unless these allowances are very generous. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 That was a measure of suchfootlingtriviality as to be more an insult than a concession to the elderly. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 That is more important than the ratherfootlingargument that has been developed on the questions that we are debating today. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. #https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/footling##
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