picayune

英汉释义

• n.

  1.(原在美国路易斯安那州及南部各州流通的)西班牙小钱币;〈美〉小钱币

  2.〈美口〉不值钱的东西,小人物,不重要的人

• adj.

  1.同“picayunish”

英英释义

• adj.

  1.Same as picayunish

英汉例句

• 1.giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction.

  给警察提供一顿免费餐也许违反了法律，但这看起来只是个小小的违反。

• 2.Through a process of gradual consolidation, New Orleans now has only one major daily, the Times-Picayune.

  通过一系列的逐步的整合过程，新奥尔良现在只有一家主流日报，泰晤士报-皮卡尤恩。

• 3.insignificant sounds; his response. . . is picayune and unmeaning- R. B. Pearsall.

  没有意义的声音；他的回答……是无聊而无意义的-R.B。毕尔索。

• 4."It's not a hotel, " the director of emergency preparedness for St. Tammany parish told the Times-Picayune in 1999.

  “这不是一间旅馆”圣-塔马尼县应急筹备协会的主任在1999年对Times-Picayune报的记者说。

• 5.Picayune demands that all but confounded the peacetalks.

  这些琐碎的要求只会使和平谈判受挫。

• 6.i had a story published in the picayune

  我有一部小说在picayune出版