中文翻译与英英解释 | n.
1.(原在美国路易斯安那州及南部各州流通的)西班牙小钱币；〔美国〕小钱币〔尤指五分辅币〕。
2.〔美口〕不值钱的东西，小人物，不重要的人。
adj.
＝picayunish.
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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"
同义词：fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, trivial,
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| A picayune was a Spanish coin, worth half a real. Its name derives from the French picaillon, which is itself from the Proven?al picaioun, meaning "small coin". |
例句与用法 | 1. | I had a story published in the picayune
我有一部小说在picayune出版
| | 2. | Giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law , but it seems to be a picayune infraction
给一位警官提供一顿免费的饭食或许违反了法律，但这看上去是不值一提的违法。
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