Mutual pettiness can bring people together, too.

一些小共同话题也能让人们走到一起。

For an employee to deny such a conference shows pettiness and resentment.

对于一名员工来说，拒绝参加这样离职谈话是小气和怨恨表现。

We're tough, we're wise, and we're way above this pettiness.

我们坚强睿智 并非空有好皮囊。

One Facebook user asked, " Why are we accepting this immaturity and pettiness to be the state of American politics? "

“为什么美国政治进程非得用这种幼稚和卑鄙手段进行？”

Like, where is this pettiness, like this petty jealousy?

这种小气、这种小肚鸡妒心，到底是从哪儿来呢？

And it just speaks to the pettiness of our politics.

这恰恰反映我们政治狭隘性。

Should I cancel my subscription to his wife's Pilates app out of sheer pettiness?

出于纯粹恶意，我消订阅他妻子普拉提用程序吗？

I mean, I respect the pettiness of it.

我意思是，我尊重这种小气劲儿。

And they can be conducted with incredible pettiness.

而这些行为可能表现得极其琐碎小气。

Why did Gore rise above the pettiness and the bitterness?

为什么戈尔能够超越狭隘与怨恨？

Admit that there was then less egotism and less pettiness.

承认那时没有那么多自负和小气。

I keep things moving in a Congress choked by pettiness and lassitude.

我负责在党间斗争国会中 推动议案。

He will not be content until I'm dead. That is what his pettiness demands.

他不会满足，直到我死去。这是他狭隘所要求。

We have been freed from the cramp and pettiness imposed by life.

我们已经摆脱生活所带来束缚和琐碎。

No touch of pettiness, no hint of spite, rouse us from our contemplation.

没有一点琐事，没有一丝怨恨，可以唤醒我们沉思。

And can I get over the pettiness and overlook things and ease back a little bit?

我可以克服琐事而忽视事情并放松一点吗？

Overridden by military methods and bureaucratic pettiness, Prussia was only beginning to free her hands from internal bonds.

普鲁士被军事手段和官僚主义所压倒， 才刚刚开始摆脱内部束缚。

We're here to distract you from the pettiness that makes up your life, the major issues.

我们在这里是为让你从那些构成你生活琐碎事情和重大问题中分心。

As you're doing your Hamilton deep dive, Did you see those petty, those seeds of pettiness even back then?

在你深入研究汉密尔顿过程中，你是否察觉到那些琐碎、甚至早在那时就已埋下狭隘之种？

Instead of settling sectional disputes, the Compromise of 1850 had exacerbated the pettiness that made politics so distasteful.

1850年妥协案非但没有解决局部争端, 反而加剧让政治变得如此令人厌恶琐碎。