picayune
英 [,pɪkə'juːn]
美[,pɪkə'jʊn]
- adj. 不值钱的;眼光狭小的;微不足道的
- n. 无价值之物;西班牙小币
英英释意
- 1. (informal terms) small and of little importance;
- "a fiddling sum of money"
- "a footling gesture"
- "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"
- "a little (or small) matter"
- "Mickey Mouse regulations"
- "a dispute over niggling details"
- "limited to petty enterprises"
- "piffling efforts"
- "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"