piffle

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 got paid a piffling sum after weeks of work.

他工作数周所得甚微.

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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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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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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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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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He talks such a load of piffle.

他满嘴胡说八道。

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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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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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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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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。

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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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