小錢的尺度（形容詞）
這是核心畫面最直接的樣子：拿銅板當尺，量什麼都嫌小。
adjective · C1
Small and not important, or involving only small amounts of money.
小錢等級的／不值一提的
核心畫面
Picture someone counting out a job in five-cent and ten-cent coins. Nothing here is a . Every amount is small enough to shrug at, and that small scale is what the word is really about. Used of a thing, it says the thing is tiny. Used of what a person does, it says they are working in coins — either handing them out one at a time, or taking them from you one at a time.
可以想成有人拿五分和一角的銅板在算一件事。這裡沒有鈔票，每一筆都小到你懶得計較，而這個「小」才是這個詞真正在講的東西…更多收起
可以想成有人拿五分和一角的銅板在算一件事。這裡沒有鈔票，每一筆都小到你懶得計較，而這個「小」才是這個詞真正在講的東西。拿來形容一樣東西，意思是它小到不值一提。拿來形容一個人的作為，意思是他在用銅板辦事——不是一枚一枚地給出去，就是一枚一枚地從你身上拿走。Two branches
拿銅板辦事（動詞）
同一把銅板換成動作。差別只在錢往哪個方向走，而兩個方向都讓人不痛快。
verb · C1
To give something only small amounts of money or attention, so that it is never dealt with properly and never works as it should.
只給一點小錢，把事情做不成