trivial
英 ['trɪvɪəl]
美['trɪvɪəl]
英英释义
同义词辨析
词组搭配
考试真题
实用场景例句
近义词little superficial unimportant shallow frivolous paltry foolish puny slight inane light mean silly petty small worthless
反义词
- adj. 不重要的，琐碎的；琐细的
词态变化
比较级: more trivial;最高级: most trivial;副词: trivially;
助记提示
1. tri vi al “三姑六婆所关心的事”.
中文词源
trivial 琐事的，小事的
trivia,琐事，小事，-al,形容词后缀。
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"
- 2. obvious and dull;
- "trivial conversation"
- "commonplace prose"
- 3. of little substance or significance;
- "a few superficial editorial changes"
- "only trivial objections"
- 4. concerned with trivialities;
- "a trivial young woman"
- "a trivial mind"
- 5. not large enough to consider or notice
英文词源
- trivial
- trivial: [15] Medieval educationists recognized seven liberal arts: the lower three, grammar, logic, and rhetoric, were known as the trivium, and the upper four, arithmetic, astronomy, geometry, and music, were known as the quadrivium. The notion of ‘less important subjects’ led in the 16th century to the use of the derived adjective trivial for ‘commonplace, of little importance’. Latin trivium itself was a compound noun formed from the prefix tri- ‘three’ and via ‘way, road’, and originally meant ‘place where three roads meet’.
=> three, via - trivial (adj.)
- "ordinary" (1580s); "insignificant, trifling" (1590s), from Latin trivialis "common, commonplace, vulgar," literally "of or belonging to the crossroads," from trivium "place where three roads meet," in transferred use, "an open place, a public place," from tri- "three" (see three) + via "road" (see via). The sense connection is "public," hence "common, commonplace."
The earliest use of the word in English was early 15c., a separate borrowing in the academic sense "of the trivium" (the first three liberal arts -- grammar, rhetoric, and logic); from Medieval Latin use of trivialis in the sense "of the first three liberal arts," from trivium, neuter of the Latin adjective trivius "of three roads, of the crossroads." Related: Trivially. For sense evolution to "pertaining to useless information," see trivia.
同义词辨析
petty, trivial
这两个形容词均含"琐细的，不重要的"之意。
petty： 指在同类中是最小最微不足道的人或事物。
trivial： 指无特别价值或重要意义的普通小事。
考试真题
- Could utility alone justify the new ideas of the American designers? Fashion is often regarded as a pursuit of beauty, and some cherished fashion's trivial relationship to the fine arts.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文
- Still, as impressive as all this is, it may be trivial compared with what comes next.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文
- Fashion is often regarded as a pursuit of beauty, and some cherished fashion's trivial relationship to the fine arts.
2017年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C
- Still, as impressive as all this is, it may be trivial compared with what comes next.
2016年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C
词组搭配
Trivial Pursuit
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实用场景例句
- a trivial detail
- 细枝末节
牛津词典
- I know it sounds trivial , but I'm worried about it.
- 我知道这事听起来微不足道，但我还是放心不下。
牛津词典
- I'll try to fix it ─ but it's not trivial (= it may be difficult to fix) .
- 我要设法修好，不过也不是轻易就能修好的。
牛津词典
- The director tried to wave aside these issues as trivial details that could be settled later...
- 主管试图对这些问题置之不理，认为都是些细枝末节的小事，可以稍后解决。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- I don't like to visit the doctor just for something trivial.
- 我不喜欢为一点小毛病就去看医生。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Trivial formalities have been done away with.
- 繁琐礼节都取消了.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- The incessant hurry and trivial activity of daily life seem to prevent, or at least, discourage quiet and intensive thinking.
- 不停的动乱和日常生活的平凡活动看来会阻碍或者至少会使人不能安静地集中思考.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- Eating, drinking, urinating, disemboweling and all other trivial actions see the loss of lifetime.
- 吃 、 喝 、 拉 、 撒的一切动作里包含著生命的流失.
期刊摘选
- Don't get impatient about trivial thing like that.
- 不要为那种琐事烦躁.
《简明英汉词典》
- This is not a trivial matter.
- 这并不是小事.
期刊摘选
- For all Chinese banks, earnings outside Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Macau are trivial.
- 所有的中国银行在大陆, 香港,澳门境外的一切投资所得收入都星星落落,不甚理想.
期刊摘选
- The quarrel was only about a trivial matter, but it was years before they made it up.
- 争吵只是为了一件小事, 但是过了多年他们才言归于好.
《简明英汉词典》
- The actual proof of convergence is generally not trivial.
- 收敛性的实际证明通常是不繁琐的.
辞典例句
- Forget about trivial disagreements among comrades, and don't take them to heart.
- 同志之间有些小矛盾,过去就算了, 不要老是耿耿于怀.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- We haven't had time. We've been too busy with trivial matters!
- 我们尽忙着鸡毛蒜皮的事,还没顾上呢!
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- They had been quite good friends for years, until they fell out about some trivial matter.
- 他们是多年的好朋友, 后来为了件小事吵起来.
《简明英汉词典》
- A trivial misunderstanding caused a breach between them.
- 小小的误会引起了他们之间的不和.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- There are a few trivial slips in this lesson.
- 在这篇课文中有几个小错误.
《简明英汉词典》
- Who could have thought a trivial matter would cause such a stir?
- 没料到芝麻大的事儿竟会引起这样一场轩然大波.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- I didn't expect them to be at daggers drawn over such a trivial thing.
- 我没料到他们为这一点小事竟会如此势不两立.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- Be patient. Don't lose your temper over trivial matters.
- 忍着点, 别为了一点小事发火.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- She works herself up about the most trivial things.
- 她为了最琐碎的事也会使自己激动起来.
《简明英汉词典》
- He often dissipated his energies in trivial matters.
- 他常在无关紧要的小事上浪费精力.
《简明英汉词典》
- It's useless to fire away with such trivial details.
- 喋喋不休地谈这些琐碎细节是无用的.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- He will jump on every little mistake you make, no matter how trivial.
- 他对你的每一点差错都要斥责一番, 不管是什么鸡毛蒜皮的事.
《简明英汉词典》
- At first, the incident seemed to be trivial.
- 起初, 这一事件似乎并不重要.平常的,普通的
《简明英汉词典》
- I know it sounds trivial , but I'm worried about it.
- 我知道这事听起来微不足道，但我还是放心不下。
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
- This may sound trivial, but I assure you it is quite important!
- 这听上去也许微不足道，但是，相信我，它十分重要！
柯林斯例句
- I had been lulled into thinking the publicity would be a trivial matter.
- 我错误地相信了媒体的报道只是小事一桩。
柯林斯例句