喜樂美語
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    aB2

    /ˈtrɪviəl/

    Not serious, important, or valuable. A trivial thing is so small or so ordinary that it is not worth worrying about, arguing about, or spending your time on.

    微不足道的；瑣碎的

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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核心畫面

One way to hold it: a thing so small and so everyday that it does not deserve your attention. Put it on the scale of what matters and the needle barely moves — so worrying about it, arguing about it, or spending an afternoon on it would be effort aimed at nothing.

一件小到不值得放在心上的事。把它放上「重要與否」的秤，指針幾乎不動——所以為它煩惱、為它爭執、為它花掉一個下午，都是…更多收起一件小到不值得放在心上的事。把它放上「重要與否」的秤，指針幾乎不動——所以為它煩惱、為它爭執、為它花掉一個下午，都是把力氣用在沒有份量的地方。注意這個字的評價色彩：說某事 trivial，不只是描述它小，而是在表態「這不值得」。所以當別人正為某件事難過時說它 trivial，聽起來會像在否定對方的感受。

原始詞典資料11 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

trivialadj/ˈtɹɪv.i.əl/

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    Ignorable; of little significance or value.

    • "All which details, I have no doubt, Jones, who reads this book at his Club, will pronounce to be excessively foolish, trivial, twaddling, and ultra-sentimental."
    • In fact, the influence of signage in a certain area may exist anywhere on a continuum from profoundly effective to utterly trivial or completely insignificant, irrespective of the intent motivating the signs.
  • 2

    Commonplace, ordinary.

    • As a scholar, meantime, he was trivial, and incapable of labour.
  • 3

    Easy; requiring little skill or effort.

  • 4

    Concerned with or involving trivia.

  • 5

    biologynatural-sciencestaxonomyRelating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.

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    mathematicssciencesOf, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.

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    algebramathematicssciencesOf, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.

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    mathematicssciencesSelf-evident.

另外 2 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    Pertaining to the trivium.

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    human-sciencesphilosophysciencesIndistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.

trivialnoun/ˈtɹɪv.i.əl/

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    obsoleteAny of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.

    • Tryuyals, & quatryuyals, ſo ſore now they appayre That Parrot the Popagay, hath pytye to beholde How the reſt of good lernyng, is roufled vp & trold
    • St. Edmund was bred in this University in the Trivials and Quadrivials till he was Professor of Arts

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。