Mutual pettiness can bring people together, too.

一些小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.

派之争、琐碎幼稚，长期以来这些东西荼毒了我们政坛。

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。

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斥地并存在同一颗心里。

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？”

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

这种小气、这种小肚鸡肠嫉妒心，到底是从哪儿来呢？

And it just speaks to the pettiness of our politics.

这恰恰反映了我们政治狭隘性。

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

出于纯粹恶意，我应该取消订阅他妻子普拉提应用程序吗？

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。

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， 霍梅尼被视为革神领袖，一个与国王截然相反人，像是一位神秘人物， 一位进步穆斯林，超脱于权力和政治琐碎之上。

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限制令，而分手可能会很混乱，小气是双方，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、淑女风范老人身上，有一种深深悲剧性格，与她工作可笑琐碎形成了不可调和对比。

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青少年小气之中，但在午餐时间， 我喉咙里还是堵得慌。

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

在安全自我意识支持下，这些人对自己更有信心， 更有同情心， 更有爱心，更有动力，并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——用不那么愤世嫉俗话来说——我们可能会用新干净词更好， 这些词从未被我们小气或恶习玷污过。

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世界里作家，这个世界充满了浪漫和琐事，家庭与政治纷争。