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a trivial thingtrivial thingsa trifle thing;trifle;1. You must not sing small about such a trivial thing.你不必为了这一点小事而垂头丧气。2. A trivial thing may sometimes bring about undesirable consequences.一个微不足道的事物有时也会引起人们不愿意见到的后果。3. I didn't expect them to be at daggers drawn over such a trivial thing.我没料到他们为这一点小事竟会如此势不两立。4. This is not a trivial thing, you have to report it to your boss immediately.这件事非同小可，必须赶快向领导汇报。5. It is a trivial thing, do not make a fuss about it and take it too seriously.这是一件微不足道的小事，你不要小题大做，太把它当回事了。6. Developing Web services in the Rational Application Developer environment, as you will see, can be a trivial thing.在Rational Application Developer环境中开发Web服务,如您所见,是一件平常事。7. Why do you always make a fuss over a trivial things?只是点风吹草动，你怎么就大做文章?8.Don't waste your time and energy on trifles.别把你的时间和精力浪费在琐事上。9.She always babbles about trifles.她老是唠叨些琐事。10.It's silly to quarrel over trifles.为鸡毛蒜皮的小事争吵真不值得。11.He spends all his time on crosswords and other trifles.他把所有的时间都用在做纵横填字游戏和其他无聊的活动上。12.I bought a few trifles as souvenirs.我买了些零碎的纪念品。13.Don't stick at trifles.不要为小事犹豫不决。
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Trivial Pursuit is an etymologically sound name, because roads and traveling, which might involve pursuit, are involved in the origin of the word trivial. The history of trivial begins with the Latin word trivium, formed from the prefix tri-, “consisting of three of the things named,” and via, “road.” Trivium meant “the meeting place of three roads, especially as a place of public resort.” Hence it also had a pejorative sense, which we express by the phrase the gutter, as in “His manners were formed in the gutter.” The adjective trivi³, derived from trivium, meant “appropriate to the street corner, commonplace, vulgar.” Trivial entered Middle English in senses that need not detain us here, first being recorded in a sense identical to that of trivi³s in 1589. Shortly after that trivial is recorded in the sense most familiar to us, “of little importance or significance.”Trivial Pursuit 从词源学的角度来看是合理的词， 因为可能涉及到追求的道路和旅行都与trivial 这个词的来源有关。 trivial 的历史从拉丁词 trivium 开始， 由前缀tri- 意思是“由三个给定的东西组成的”和 via “道路”构成。 Trivium 的意思是“三条路交汇的地方，尤指公众常去的地方”。 自此它又有了一层带贬意的意思，我们用短语贫民区里的 来表示这层意思， 如在句子”他的礼仪是在贫民区学成的”。从trivium 派生出来的形容词 trvialis 意思为“用于街道角落的，平凡的，粗俗的”。 Trvial 进入了中古英语， 当时的意思不会使我们停止不前。最早的记录是在1589年，意思与trivialis 相同。 不久以后，trivial 的意思变得与我们更接近了， 即“琐碎的，不重要的或无价值的”
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