喜樂美語
  1. 1aB2/ˈtrɪviəl/微不足道的；瑣碎的

    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.

    示範例句 · Example

    Mei and Leo argued all morning over something trivial: who should carry the box first.

    逐字美和里歐為了某件微不足道的事爭執了一整個早上：誰應該先搬那個箱子。

    trivial 是英文裡說「這件事小到不值得放在心上」的字：可能是小到不用吵的事、小到不用煩惱的問題，也可能是小到不心疼的金額。它比 small 多一層評價——不只是「小」，而是「小得不值得花時間」，所以說 a trivial matter 的人通常是在勸自己或別人放下。trivial 的意思可以想成從拉丁文「三條路交會的路口」長出來：人人都會經過的地方，到處都有、再普通不過，久了就帶上「不特別、不重要」的味道。

    常見搭配

    • a trivial matter

      小事一樁；不重要的事

      something that is not important enough to worry about

      They stopped speaking to each other over a trivial matter.

    • a trivial problem

      小問題；不礙事的問題

      a problem that is small and easy to live with

      The squeaky door is a trivial problem — we can fix it later.

    • a trivial sum

      一筆微不足道的錢

      an amount of money so small that nobody minds it

      Ren paid a trivial sum for the second-hand bike.

    • a trivial detail

      無關緊要的細節

      a small part of something that does not change the whole

      Don't get stuck on a trivial detail; finish the drawing first.

    • seem trivial

      顯得微不足道

      to look unimportant, especially next to something bigger

      At the time it felt huge, but now it seems trivial.

    • trivial by comparison

      相比之下不算什麼

      unimportant when you put it beside something that matters more

      Her feelings about the test were trivial by comparison.

core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。

同家族的字

原始詞典資料11 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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/

  • 1

    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.

  • 6

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

  • 7

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

  • 8

    mathematicssciencesSelf-evident.

另外 2 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    Pertaining to the trivium.

  • 10

    human-sciencesphilosophysciencesIndistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.

trivialnoun/ˈtɹɪv.i.əl/

  • 1

    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

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