piffle

Pat really does talk a lot of piffle sometimes.

帕特有时的确讲很多废话。

He got paid a piffling sum after weeks of work.

他工作数周所得甚微.

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。

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。

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。

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。

He talks such a load of piffle.

他满嘴胡说八道。

The entire report was piffle from beginning to end.

整个报告从头至尾废话连篇.

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.

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。