footling

英 [ˈfuːtlɪŋ]

美 [ˈfuːtlɪŋ]

adj.  无足轻重的; 无聊(而烦人)的

医学

牛津词典

adj.

• 无足轻重的；无聊（而烦人）的
  not important and likely to make you annoyed

英英释义

adj

• (informal) small and of little importance
  1. a fiddling sum of money
  2. a footling gesture
  3. our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war
  4. a little (or small) matter
  5. a dispute over niggling details
  6. limited to petty enterprises
  7. piffling efforts
  8. giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction
  Synonym:fiddlinglilliputianlittlenigglingpiddlingpifflingpettypicayunetrivial

双语例句

• Congress's response to recent bribery scandals has been to impose footling restrictions on lobbyists.
  国会对于近期行贿丑闻的回应是给说客强加了琐细的限制条款。
• Now here's another lunatic. here's a mouth-frother, here's a bigot, here's a stiff-necked buffoon who, in one ranting article, shows all that is wrong, footling and absurd about modern china.
  这儿又来了一个疯子。这个满嘴废话的家伙，这个偏执狂。这个傲慢的小丑，在一篇咆哮的文章里，表现了关于现代中国的一切缪误，愚蠢和荒谬。
• When I started in my new job, I was given a lot of footling tasks to do.
  我刚开始在新岗位上工作时，他们让我做许多无足轻重的事情。