trifle

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream. countable,uncountable
    — It is interesting to watch the surface joviality on screen while racism is layered between courses like soggy trifles.
  2. Anything that is of little importance or worth. countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — Trifles light as air / Are to the jealous confirmation strong / As proofs of holy writ.
  3. Anything that is of little importance or worth.; An insignificant amount of money. countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — A trifle, some eight-penny matter.
  4. A very small amount (of something). countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — This Line leaves out […] Poplar and Black-vvall, vvhich are indeed contiguous, a Trifle of Ground excepted, and very populous.
  5. A particular kind of pewter. countable,uncountable
  6. Utensils made from this particular kind of pewter. uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To deal with something as if it were of little importance or worth. intransitive
    — You must not trifle with her affections.
  2. To act, speak, or otherwise behave with jest. intransitive
    — […] playing and trifling are completely banished out of my mind […]
  3. To inconsequentially toy with something. intransitive
    — Mr. Micawber, leaning back in his chair, trifled with his eye-glass and cast his eyes up at the ceiling […]
  4. To squander or waste. transitive
    — We trifle time: I pray thee, pursue sentence.
  5. To make a trifle of, to make trivial. obsolete,transitive
    — […] but this sore night / Hath trifled former knowings.

词形变化

trifles plural trifles present,singular,third-person trifling participle,present trifled participle,past trifled past

词汇关系

近义词
bagatelle bag of shells bric-a-brac dicky dicky-bird fico fig flamfew flyspeck minuity niff-naff picayune scuddick sop ticky-tack toy trick trifle triviality whiffle white chip
上位词
artifact object
下位词
freebie small change trinket
衍生词
a trifle Black Forest trifle piffle trifler trifle with
相关词
easy thing modicum
并列词
cheap thing low-quality thing trash

词源

词源 1
From Middle English trifle, trifel, triful, trefle, truyfle, trufful, from Old French trufle (“mockery”), a byform of trufe, truffe (“deception”), of uncertain origin.
词源 2
From Middle English trifle, trifel, triful, trefle, truyfle, trufful, from Old French trufle (“mockery”), a byform of trufe, truffe (“deception”), of uncertain origin.
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