There were twenty piddling little fountains.

他扎了水管二十钎子，二十道小喷泉喷了出来，像撒尿一样。

Oh, talkin' to one piddling underFae.

噢 跟一个道的低等异种。

Wedgwood wanted to " astonish the world... for I hate piddling" .

韦奇伍德想要“震惊世界… … 因为我讨厌小打小闹”。

Then, suddenly, it fell out of fashion, coming to be seen as piddling, not astonishing.

然后，突然间，它再流行，并且被认为是无关紧要的，而是什么令震撼的东西。

I felt that one look at Vic's switchblade knife and gimlet gaze would have put Hayley's piddling domestic problems in some kind of reasonable perspective.

我觉得看到维克的弹簧刀和锐利目光能让哈里那些道的家庭问题变得合情合理一点。

Having already lifted rates by nearly five percentage points over the past year—its steepest tightening in four decades—the latest increase of a quarter-point was, in numerical terms, piddling.

去的一年里已经将利率提高了近五个百分点——这是 40 年来最大幅度的紧缩——从数字上看，最近的 25 个基点的增长乎其。

By his reckoning, only 8.5% of projects meet their initial estimates on cost and time, and a piddling 0.5% achieve what they set out to do on cost, time and benefits.

据他估计，只有 8.5% 的项目达到了他们最初对成本和时间的估计，只有区区 0.5% 的项目成本、时间和收益方面达到了他们设定的目标。

He goes number one first thing in the morning, then again in the afternoon, once more in the late afternoon, say 4:00,4:30, depending on his juice intake, and then, a quick piddle before bedtime.

他早上第一件事就是要上小号，下午再一次，傍晚一次，大概4点、4点半，看他喝了多少果汁，然后睡前再一小泡。