piffle
- n.废话;蠢话;胡言乱语
- vi.做无聊事;讲废话
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Pat really does talk a lot of piffle sometimes .
帕特有时的确讲很多废话。
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He talks such a load of piffle .
他满嘴胡说八道。
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He got paid a piffling sum after weeks of work .
他工作数周所得甚微。
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People who know him are sure that it 's absolute piffle .
了解他的人都知道,那纯粹是一派胡言。
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The entire report was piffle from beginning to end .
整个报告从头至尾废话连篇。
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The old man often piffled incoherent speech after he had a stroke .
这名老人在他中风之后,时常碎碎念一些语无伦次的话。
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a waffle pizza , which perhaps he should call the piffle .
华夫饼披萨,他可能会把这种食品叫做priffle。
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Today 's piffling fines - £ 30 for riding on the pavement - should also be drastically raised .
如今,骑车族上人行道要罚款30英镑。这种微不足道的罚款也应大幅提高。
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His demands for a tad more financial autonomy and oversight of the courts are piffling .
他的要求(要求更多一点的金融自治权和对法庭的监督权)微不足道。
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He considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost ; piffling efforts ; a trifling matter .
他总是考虑生活中一些极琐碎事情的开支;微不足道的努力;琐碎的事情。
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Einstein was said always to wear the same clothes so as to avoid having to trouble his brain with such piffling matters as deciding between suits .
据说,爱因斯坦总是穿着同样的衣服,这样就用不着为穿什么衣服这种琐事而伤脑筋。
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Yet what it says about Royal Mail , apart from the piffling detail that its managers can neither write nor proofread , is deeply troubling .
然而,它除了暴露出经理们既不会写信、也不会检查错字这一琐碎细节以外,它对皇家邮政的揭示也令人深感不安。
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Dozens of readers have called you a baby and a fool and are cross with you ( and me ) for wasting their time on such piffle .
很多读者说你是没长大的傻瓜,对你(和我)拿这种无聊的事来浪费他们的时间感到恼火。
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The school 's Rs600000 ( $ 9050 ) fees for the residential two-year course , though piffling compared with the $ 45697 tuition fee for just a year at Harvard , is still a stretch for many of its students .
该学院的全日制两年住校课程学费为60万印度卢比(合9050美元),与哈佛大学一年就45697美元的学费相比简直微不足道,但对该学院很多学生而言仍然太贵。