niggling
- adj.微不足道的;(不严重却不断)烦人的,疼痛的;不重要的
- v.吹毛求疵;使烦恼;挑剔;使焦虑
- n.麻烦事
- niggle的现在分词
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- (informal) small and of little importance
- a fiddling sum of money
- a footling gesture
- our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war
- a little (or small) matter
- a dispute over niggling details
- limited to petty enterprises
- piffling efforts
- giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction
- Synonym: fiddling footling lilliputian little piddling piffling petty picayune trivial
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She had niggling doubts about their relationship .
她时常对他们的关系有一丝疑虑。
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Something was niggling her .
她有点烦心的事儿。
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It 's been niggling at my mind ever since I met Neville in Nice
自从在尼斯见到内维尔后,我一直忐忑不安。
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Both players have been suffering from niggling injuries .
两名运动员一直在忍受轻微的伤痛。
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This tension between what we feel we can have and what we 're seemingly able to have is the niggling suffering , the anxiety we feel .
这种介于我们感觉自己能拥有的东西和我们看起来有能力拥有的东西之间的紧张关系就是恼人的痛苦,也是我们所感受到的焦虑。
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Single model of electrical box testing equipment and system operation niggling problem are solved in the paper .
本系统克服了以往人工检测的速度慢,精度差的问题,以及以往电气盒检测设备的检测型号单一,系统操作繁琐的问题。
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I work hard and I always train even if I 've got a niggling injury .
我很努力,即便有点小伤也还坚持训练。
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It began as just one of those niggling everyday frustrations .
灵感源于日常生活中常见的那些让人头疼的琐事。
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The niggling job of mending all the small holes .
修补所有小洞的繁琐工作。
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It 's been niggling me all week ; I can 't remember where I put it .
一个星期来它使我不得安宁;我记不起把它放在什么地方了。
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Paul and then there 's a niggling problem with the cooker .
炊具有繁琐的问题。
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The battle between the two main challengers has been dominated by niggling personal issues and trivial disputes .
这两位竞争对手之间的战争主要围绕琐碎的个人小事和争议展开。
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And yet I feel a niggling unease .
不过我有些微不安。
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I do not see why they should be niggling over paying a few pounds into the fund .
我不明白他们为什么对这笔基金投入几镑钱而如此在乎。
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Niggling details aside , the arrival of the first flight on July4th was treated as a big breakthrough .
抛开细节不谈,7月4日首航的到来被认为是一大突破。
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Marlowe struggled with a niggling respect for the man , despite his sore jaw .
玛露力争维护那男人的尊严,不管她父亲的那种教训。
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Once again , though , he picked up the kind of niggling injury that has seen him start only five league games this campaign .
但正是因为一些伤病,皮雷本赛季联赛只有5场首发。
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In granary sampling robots , there are lots of methods solving inverse kinematics , but they are niggling and their operation procedures are lengthy .
在粮仓取样机器人中,求运动学逆解的方法很多,但都比较繁琐,运算过程冗长。
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Yes , you can create a detailed checklist to remind yourself of these niggling configuration details , but documenting complexity is far less effective than removing complexity .
是的,您可以创建一个详细的清单来提醒您这些琐碎的配置细节,但是记录复杂的东西远不如将复杂去掉有效。
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United will be without Paul Scholes until the New Year after Sir Alex confirmed the midfielder is still struggling to shake off a niggling groin injury .
曼联新年之前都无法迎回斯科尔斯,弗格森爵士确认这名中场还在与伤病搏斗。
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But I think we need a separate representative body to debate the big questions of whether our representative bodies should be debating the big questions or taking care of niggling details .
但是我认为我们需要一个单独的众议员体制来讨论关于我们现有的众议员是否有资格讨论大问题或者关心那些琐碎的细节这个大问题。
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If things are niggling you and bad moods are a familiar deal to you , then it 's a good bet that something 's not quite right somewhere in your life .
如果有些事情总是令你伤神费力,总是让你感到心情不好,那就说明你生活中的某件事情肯定做的不对。
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And with sunscreen I reasoned that the protection it delivers ( to borrow from the cosmetic industry 's lexicon ) outweighs any niggling doubts about its ingredients .
对于防晒霜,我理性的判断是看重防晒霜提供(deliver这个词来自化妆品行业词典)的防护作用,比烦恼它本身的配方怎样重要的多。
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However , although most of them are not so interested in marriage , they do harbour a niggling fear at the back of their minds that they are going to be lonely in their old age .
虽然她们中的大部分都对婚姻不感兴趣,但她们内心却藏着一个莫名的恐惧。她们恐怕她们在年老时孤独。
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Plenty of chefs don 't touch food ( they conceptualize : their minions mince the shallots and deglaze the saucepans ), but I still have one niggling question : Who accidentally drinks antifreeze ?
许多厨师都不碰食物(这是后厨的规矩:由下属负责切洋葱和清洗炒锅之类的杂活)。但我还是不明白:谁会不小心喝防冻液呢?