bagatelle
名词 n.
动词 v.
英文释义
名词 n.
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A trifle; an insubstantial thing.
— Sir C. Oh! dear madam, don't ask me, it's a very foolish song—a mere bagatelle. Char. Oh! Sir Callaghan, I will admit of no excuse.
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A short piece of literature or of instrumental music, typically light or playful in character.
— One afternoon in 1920. a young pianist sat down in a shuttered room in the capital of defeated Germany and played a Bagatelle by Beethoven.
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A game similar to billiards played on an oblong table with pockets or arches at one end only.
— For some time they did nothing save box, but at last they went down to the bagatelle room, and played bagatelle for a bit. They marked this advance in civilization by prodding holes in the ceiling with the bagatelle cues, which gave the ceiling the appearance of a cloth target after a Gatling gun had been shooting at it.
- Any of several smaller wooden tabletop games developed from the original bagatelle in which the pockets are made of pins.
动词 v.
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To meander or move around, in a manner similar to the ball in the game of bagatelle.
— Admittedly Mané’s strike did rebound off a post as the ball bagatelled around the home area. It was characteristically cleared before Roberto Firmino could redirect the fall out beyond Henderson.
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To bagatellize; to regard as a bagatelle.
— That Saddam Hussein announced his intentions to destroy Israel a long time ago was either ignored or bagatelled. “We just didn't have time to address the threat to Israel,” explained Brigitte Erler on the eve of a large peace demonstration in Bonn.
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词源
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Borrowed from French bagatelle, from Italian bagattella.
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Borrowed from French bagatelle, from Italian bagattella.
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