small-time

美 [ˈsmɔːl taɪm]英 [ˈsmɔːl taɪm]
  • adj.不太重要的;不高明的
small-timesmall-time

adj.

only before noun不太重要的;不高明的
not very important or successful

a small-time crook

手段不高明的骗子

petty
compare big time n.

small-time

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  • 1
    ADJ-GRADED 没有分量的;不重要的;不入流的;小本经营的
    If you refer to workers or businesses as small-time, you think they are not very important because their work is limited in extent or not very successful.

    ...small- time drug dealers.

    小毒贩

adj

1
of minor importance
a nickel-and-dime operation run out of a single rented room
a small-time actor
Synonym: nickel-and-dime

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  1. He was a small-time lawyer keen to be someone .

    他是个没有什么名堂却总想出人头地的律师。

  2. A small-time racket which he pulled from time to time .

    他不时玩上一手的小骗局。

  3. Baby , you 're small-time , and you always will be .

    亲爱的,你永远都是鼠目寸光。

  4. Some say that Cockney was also used by small-time criminals to confuse the police .

    也有人说一些三流罪犯也说这种英语以骗过警察。

  5. I am a small-time journalist on a small newspaper .

    我只是一份小报的微不足道的记者。

  6. OPPORTUNITIES are sparse for China 's small-time speculators .

    对中国的小额投资人来说,机会可谓是凤毛麟角。

  7. By small-time scale analysis , by 2003 the urban land scales change variously , while not significantly annually .

    按小时间尺度分析,自2003年以来变化各异,但每年变化量不大。

  8. He was a small-time lawyer keen to be somebody .

    他是个没什么名堂的小律师,却总想出人头地。

  9. But this is the list of small-time traders .

    不过都是一些小商人。

  10. That clause is intended for small-time stuff ,

    那条约只适用于小案子

  11. The worst they 'd ever dealt with was an occasionally trespasser or small-time thief .

    他们过去对付的充其量是一个偶尔闯入者或是小偷小摸者。

  12. Many successful entrepreneurs , or even small-time entrepreneurs , are emigrating and even selling their companies in order to spend their holidays on some foreign beach .

    王健林说:很多成功的企业家,或者小小成功的企业家,移民,甚至是卖掉自己公司到国外海滩去度假享受。

  13. Alongside lower demand , businesses face new costs from extortion , which has flourished as small-time crooks have taken advantage of the mayhem .

    除了需求下降以外,商家们还面临着由于日益猖獗的敲诈勒索而新增的成本,因为小骗子们也在混乱中乘人之危大行其道。

  14. He 's a small-time crook , he doesn 't have a lawyer .

    他只是一个小喽罗,他没有律师。

  15. Louie , we 've got to find some small-time guys to throw to the wolves for murdering that cop .

    路易,我们必须找一下小家伙来掩盖杀害那个警察。

  16. Performer Mark Wahlberg began his public life as a small-time thug , even doing time at one point for the savage beatings of two Vietnamese men .

    演员马克·华伯格以小瘪三的姿态开始了他的社会生活,他甚至曾因野蛮殴打两名越南人而锒铛入狱。

  17. Ripley Holden ( David Morrissey ) is a small-time entrepreneur desperate to make it big with his new state-of-the-art amusement arcade .

    里普利·霍顿(大卫·莫利塞)是个三流的企业家,他急切想使他的新艺术级的娱乐场的规模扩大。

  18. It is a combination connecting storylines of Los Angeles mobsters , small-time criminals , and a mysterious briefcase .

    这是由几个故事所构成的电影,里面有洛杉矶匪徒、卑鄙的罪犯、神秘的文公报。

  19. His partner , Joey McFarland , was a small-time investor from Kentucky whose entertainment-business apprenticeship included booking paid party appearances for celebrities like Ms. Hilton .

    他的合伙人乔伊·麦克法兰(JoeyMcFarland)是来自肯塔基州的小规模投资者,麦克法兰初涉娱乐业时,负责安排希尔顿等名人收费参加活动的档期。

  20. Graham 's widowed mother was a small-time speculator ; she was wiped out during the Panic of 1907 , when he was 13 years old .

    格雷厄姆寡居的母亲是个小投机者,在1907年大恐慌(Panicof1907)中赔得一干二。当时格雷厄姆年仅13岁。

  21. In 1983 , he was still eking out a living as a small-time businessman when he met Ms. Wang , who was working as a typist at Shanghai Normal University .

    1983年遇见王薇时,他还是靠做小生意勉强为生,当时王薇是上海师范大学的一名打字员。

  22. The flamboyant businessman acquired the ailing football club in the mid-1980s , when he was a small-time media and real-estate entrepreneur and transformed it into Italy 's most successful team .

    这位个性张扬的商人在上世纪80年代中期收购了境况不佳的AC米兰,当时他只是一位名气不大的媒体业和地产业创业家,他把AC米兰打造成意大利最成功的球队。

  23. A nickel-and-dime operation run out of a single rented room ; a small-time actor . Marketing will be appropriate when the level of self-interest is insufficiently consistent with societal goals to elicit behavior .

    在租来的单间里就能完成的微不足道的工作;微不足道的男演员。当自身利益的程度与社会目标不甚吻合,不足以引发行为时,营销就成了合适的行为。

  24. Evan Rachel Wood plays a twenty-something who has been raised by her parents ( Richard Jenkins and Debra Winger ) to be a small-time crook in Los Angeles .

    埃文·蕾切尔·伍德在片中饰演一位二十多岁的女子,她的父母(理查德·詹金斯和德博拉·温格饰演)将其培养成洛杉矶的一个小骗子。

  25. At the bottom of the network are small-time thieves who steal copper wiring from open-air railway tracks , underground tunnels and airport escalators , copper materials from factories and electrical plants , and even from gravestones .

    黑市交易网络的最底端是一些小贼,他们从露天铁轨、地下隧道和机场自动扶梯盗取铜缆,从工厂、电厂甚至是墓石中盗取铜材。

  26. The film follows the interrogation of Roger " Verbal " Kint , a small-time con man who is one of only two survivors of a massacre and fire on a ship docked at the Portof Los Angeles .

    主要围绕外号“Verbal”的骗子罗杰·金特接受警方讯问展开,停靠在洛杉矶港上的船只着火,他是船上大屠杀中两名仅有的幸存者中的一名。

  27. He is a small-time ganster .

    他是个小混混。

  28. l the questions the IRS asked . " Our group is a small-time operation with very little money and this represents a complete waste of time by the IRS and in terms of any money they would collect if we were not tax exempt . "

    “我们是小规模运营的组织,资金也不多,如果我们不被免税,就国税局能收到的资金来说,这么做完全是在浪费时间。”