Acts of trespass and petty theft often grew out of the blithe disregard that boys had for private property.

擅自侵入和小偷小摸的行为经常出自于男孩子们对私有财物漫不经心的轻视态度。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

Ledger includes general ledger, subsidiary ledger, cash book, and petty cash book.

分类帐包括总分类帐，明细分类帐，银行日记帐及现金日记帐。

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This is a family of minds which are, at once, great and petty.

这是某种思想家的类型，既伟大又渺小。

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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

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

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“

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Ms Rimington's is a catalogue of slights, frustrations and petty humiliations at the hands of men.

ECONOMIST: Stella Rimington makes an unlikely feminist icon

Two more immediate snags may also trip it up: fuzzy maths and petty partisanship.

ECONOMIST: A long-awaited plan

Yet, time and again, we've let partisan and petty bickering stand in the way of progress.

WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Kicks Off "Educate to Innovate"