Mr.Obama said he does not want to see what he called - "petty politics" get in the way of reform.

VOA: standard.2009.07.29

She has way more power than she needs, it would seem, to destroy a petty little mages like Comus.

她会拥有更多的力量，那看上去足够，摧毁一个像科玛斯这样的英俊的法师。

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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。

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"Even petty bribery,small bribery, is not a long-term sustainable approach to kind of grease the wheels,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

It seemed to be the regime that divided France least, what Gambetta called the nouvelles couches,or the new social strata, the new social strata,the middle classes,the petty bourgeois.

这看似是最不会导致法国分裂的政体,甘必大称它为新阶层,或新的社会阶层,中产阶级,小资产阶级

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IOM monitors in Anbar province report increasing numbers of children are leaving school to help support their families through begging, petty trade or doing odd jobs.

VOA: standard.2009.09.20

Learn the accomplishments of active life, take for your models not those people who spend their time on these petty quibbles but those who have a good livelihood and reputation and many other blessings."

学个谋生的一技之长，别学那些满嘴谬论的人,要学那些生活富足，声名显赫及福泽深厚的人“

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He says,"provincials are like mold, burrowing in their little plots, or frogs at the bottom of their puddles, engaged in sordid, trivial rivalries, moved by petty jealousies, avarice and material interests.

他说,乡下人就像模子里刻出来的,在他们的自留地里乱挖一气,或者在泥浆里面挖青蛙,从事着肮脏,没什么竞争性的工作,为嫉妒,贪婪和物欲所驱动

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