exhibits a sort of lofty detachment to the more or less petty things that weigh most of us down.

这类人展现了一种,对琐碎事物的崇高超脱,让我们大多数人无地自容。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

I'm one of those people. I can do detailed items, very small.

我是那种可以做些具体的、琐碎的事情的人。

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The idea of working in an office, pushing papers 70 to 80 hours a week, although as lucrative as it might be, wasn't something I felt I will be really using my own personal skill set to benefit people on a mass level.

在办公室里一周做，70到80小时的琐碎工作，虽然会很赚钱，但是这并不是,我能真正用自己的能力,去造福大众的工作。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It's just a trivial grammatical point about the meaning of the word my.

只是“我的“这个词的琐碎语法点而已。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And that's why all those reactions, first of all, in some sense what I put up was kind of a trivial statement in actual fact saying they all happen spontaneously because I didn't specify what we were starting with exactly, what concentrations we were starting with.

首先这就是为什么所有的这些方程，在某种程度上,我举得这些例子说它们自发产生,这是一个琐碎的陈述,因为我没有说明，我们从什么地方开始。

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