流逝汉英词典

pettifoggery

P 开头单词

基本解释

  • n.訟棍的手段；欺瞞

同根派生

     

英汉例句

    雙語例句

  • The hand responds to the heart, the pettifoggery is expressive, is in the folk art essence.
    心手相應，刀筆傳神，爲民間藝術中的精華。
  • A witty, soft-hearted man of the scholar class (a xiu-cai), he has given up law practice (pettifoggery) to run an inn.
    宋世傑是一個機智的、寬厚的的秀才，他封筆絕訟，經營著一家客棧。

    • 權威例句

  • The cost of all this pettifoggery is huge—unless, that is, you are a member of one of the cartels that pushes for pettifogging rules or an employee of one of the bureaucratic bodies charged with enforcing them.
    ECONOMIST: The terrible threat of unlicensed interior designers

词组短语

    短語

  • engage in pettifoggery 包攬詞訟