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trifle
- IPA[ˈtrīf(ə)l]
美式
- a thing of little value or importance；a small amount of something
- treat (someone or something) without seriousness or respect；talk or act frivolously
verb: trifle, 3rd person present: trifles, gerund or present participle: trifling, past tense: trifled, past participle: trifled
noun: trifle, plural noun: trifles
- 釋義
- 相關詞
- 片語
名詞
- 1. a thing of little value or importance we needn't trouble the headmaster over such trifles 同義詞
- ▪ a small amount of something the thousand yen he'd paid seemed the merest trifle 同義詞 反義詞
- 2. British a cold dessert of sponge cake and fruit covered with layers of custard, jelly, and cream syllabubs, trifles, and other dishes bowls of trifle followed
動詞
- 1. treat (someone or something) without seriousness or respect he is not a man to be trifled with men who trifle with women's affections
- 2. archaic talk or act frivolously we will not trifle—life is too short
- ▪ waste something, especially time, frivolously he had trifled away two months at a task which should have taken a week
- a little; somewhat
Oxford American Dictionary
- a little; somewhat
Oxford Dictionary
片語
- 更多解釋
- IPA[ˈtrʌɪfl]
英式
- a thing of little value or importance: we needn't trouble the headmaster over such trifles
- treat without seriousness or respect: he is not a man to be trifled with men who trifle with women's affections
Oxford Dictionary
