picayune

1. The misery suffered in this war makes your own problems seem pretty picayune.
   战争中的苦难使你个人的烦恼显得微不足道。
2. His action was unwarranted, picayune, and vindictive.
   他的行为是非法的，卑鄙的，恶意的。
3. Picayune demands that all but confounded the peace talks.
   这些琐碎的要求只会使和平谈判受挫。
4. The trouble with your studying is that you spend too much time on picayune details and not enough on the really important matters.
   你学习上的问题是，花在过度索粹细节的时间太多，而真正重要的事情上却时间太少。

adj

1. (informal) small and of little importance
   1. a fiddling sum of money
   2. a footling gesture
   3. our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war
   4. a little (or small) matter
   5. a dispute over niggling details
   6. limited to petty enterprises
   7. piffling efforts
   8. giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction

   Synonym:    fiddlingfootlinglilliputianlittlenigglingpiddlingpifflingpettytrivial