His acquaintance with Elizabeth was very trifling.

他跟伊丽莎白交情很浮浅。”

The friends treated their quarrel as only a trifling matter.

朋友们视彼此间争吵为无关紧要之事。

It is no use inviting the politician or the professional or business man, who has been working or worrying about serious things for six days, to work or worry about trifling things at the weekend.

同样，政界人士、专业人员、商人来说，对于为严肃公务操劳或烦恼了6天，在周未再让他们为琐事而动脑子和忧虑也无益。

A trifling gift may have value in the eyes of the recipient.

礼物虽微薄，受者却可能十分珍视它。

After all, what god could fear a trifling weed?

毕竟，哪有神会惧怕一棵小草？

They thought that she belonged to the landlady, and began some trifling conversation with her; but, on Mrs Roberts's return, she told them that the little thing was the only child of a couple who were staying in the house.

她们以为那老板娘孩子，就开始和她闲聊起来；但罗伯茨太太回来后告诉她们，这个小住在酒店里一对夫妇独生女。

The circumstance may seem a trifling one, but the thought of it now pains my heart; and I relate it, that those children who have parents to love them may learn to value them as they ought.

管发生只一件小事，却依然刺痛着我心；我描述它，就希望那些依然享受着父母之爱孩子们能珍惜这一切。

Many of the jobs we do today would have looked like trifling wastes of time to people a few hundred years ago, but nobody is looking back at the past, wishing they were a lamplighter.

我们今天从事许多工作在几百年前人看来都毫无意义浪费时间，但没有人回头看过去，渴望成为一个点灯人。

Then the cake and ice cost more than Amy expected, so did the wagon, and various other expenses, which seemed trifling at the outset, counted up rather alarmingly afterward.

然后蛋糕和天然冰成本超出了艾米预算，观光车也一样；还有杂七杂八其他费用，起初以为似乎数目不大，全部加起来却笔惊人开支。

She described one meeting at which officials argued over whether a terminally ill claimant should be paid " a trifling sum or a very trifling sum" .

她描述了在一次会议上，公务人员就身患绝症索赔人应该获得“微薄赔偿还极其微薄赔偿”进行了争论。

I could not do her the injustice of supposing that so trifling a circumstance would have prevented her from giving them, but she was obstinate.

而我却不能埋没她口才，认为根本无需介意环境竟会妨碍她给我讲述故事。但她还执拗地不肯讲。

" It was nobody's fault. When we got there the parson wouldn't marry us because of some trifling irregularity in the license."

“这也不能怪谁。我们赶到那里后，牧师不给我们举行婚礼，说结婚许可证有些不合规定之处。”

The colonel would have wired earlier, but Charles, thinking his illness a trifling one, did not wish to have his family worried.

上校本来要早些来电报，可查尔斯觉得他病不要紧，不愿意让里担忧。

If we will obey its voice, even in the most trifling things, we can always hear it, clear and strong.

如果我们愿意听从它声音，即使关于最细微事情，我们也总能听到，清晰而强劲。

For my part, I should like to know who in those days were above such trifling.

我愿意知道，谁当时不肯造这些东西，谁能够超越这许多烦琐玩意儿之上。

There was nothing of quality folks about Cathleen now. She looked Cracker, even worse. She looked poor white, shiftless, slovenly, trifling. " She'll be dipping snuff soon, if she isn't doing it already, " thought Scarlett in horror.

" 她不定哪一天就会嚼烟末了，说不定她已经嚼上了。"

The commendation bestowed on him by Mrs. Reynolds was of no trifling nature. What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?

我们不应当小看了雷诺奶奶对她主人这种称赞。什么样称赞会比一个聪明下人称赞更来得宝贵呢？

On the fine days at this time of the year, and earlier, certain ephemeral operations were apt to disturb, in their trifling way, the majestic calm of Egdon Heath.

一年中这一段时间，以及更早一些时候，在天气晴好日子里，某种短暂动静会很轻易地以它们那不为人注意方式，打破埃格敦荒原这片肃穆静寂。

Some very trifling piece of business was alleged as a reason for the call; but there was evidently something behind.

她提出了一些非常琐碎事情作为拜访理由；但显然背后还有别事情。

Oh! I am not at all afraid of her dying. People do not die of little trifling colds. She will be taken good care of. As long is she stays there, it is all very well.

“噢！她难道这么一下子就会送命！哪有小伤风就会送命道理。人自会把她等候得好好。只要她待在那儿，包管无事。