Mutual pettiness can bring people together, too.

一些小的共同话题也能让人们走到一起。

Let's resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.

党派之争、琐碎幼稚，长期以来这些东西荼毒了我们的政坛。

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

对一名员工来说，拒绝参加这样的离职谈话是小气和怨恨的表现。

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

我们坚强睿智 非空有好皮囊。

Now I am well aware that pettiness and grandeur, malice and charity, hatred and love, can find place side by side in the same human heart.

卑鄙与伟大、恶毒与善良、仇恨与热爱是可以互不排存在同一颗心里的。

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

“为什么美国的政治进程非得用这种幼稚和卑鄙的手段进？”

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

这种小气、这种小肚鸡肠的嫉妒心，到底是从哪儿来的呢？

And it just speaks to the pettiness of our politics.

这恰恰反映了我们政治的狭隘。

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

纯粹的恶意，我应该取消订阅他妻子的普拉提应用程序吗？

I mean, I respect the pettiness of it.

我的意思是，我尊重这种小气劲儿。

And they can be conducted with incredible pettiness.

而这些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的自负和小气。

While in exile, Khomeini was viewed as the spiritual guide for the revolution, a person who was the opposite of the Shah, as a kind of mystic, a progressive Muslim, above the pettiness of power and politics.

在流亡期间， 霍梅尼被视为革命的精神领袖，一个与国王截然相反的人，像是一位神秘人物， 一位进步的穆斯林，超脱权力和政治的琐碎之上。

That being said, you know, listen, it is very easy, it sounds like, to get a restraining order put against you and breakups can be messy and pettiness goes both ways and maybe she was just

话虽如此，你知道吗，听着，似乎很容易就能申请到针对你的限制令，而分手可能会很混乱，小气是双方的，也许她只是也有点小气。

In the aspect of this dark-arrayed, pale-faced, ladylike old figure there was a deeply tragic character that contrasted irreconcilably with the ludicrous pettiness of her employment.

在这个衣着黝黑、面色苍白、淑女风范的老人身上，有一种深深的悲剧格，与她工作的可笑琐碎形成了不可调和的对比。

I admit, I had always thought I was above this kind of typical teenage pettiness, but I felt a lump in my throat throughout lunch.

我承认， 我一直认为自己不会陷入这种典型的青少年小气之中，但在午餐时间， 我的喉咙里还是堵得慌。

Bolstered by a secure sense of self, these people were more sure of themselves, more compassionate, caring, driven, and uneasy around cruelty and pettiness.

在安全的自我意识的支持下，这些人对自己更有信心， 更有同情心， 更有爱心，更有动力，且对残酷和琐碎感到不安。

Or—to put the thing less cynically—we may be better in new clean words, which have never been tainted by our pettiness or vice.

或者——用不那么愤世嫉俗的话来说——我们可能会用新的干净的词更好， 这些词从未被我们的小气或恶习玷污过。

In the other group, you find writers who dive headlong into our shared world of romance and pettiness, family and political squabbling.

在另一组中，你会发现那些全身心投入我们共同的世界里的作家，这个世界充满了浪漫和琐事，家庭与政治纷争。