footling

adj.

1. 无足轻重的；无聊（而烦人）的
   not important and likely to make you annoyed

1. Now here's another lunatic. here's a mouth-frother, here's a bigot, here's a stiff-necked buffoon who, in one ranting article, shows all that is wrong, footling and absurd about modern china.
   这儿又来了一个疯子。这个满嘴废话的家伙，这个偏执狂。这个傲慢的小丑，在一篇咆哮的文章里，表现了关于现代中国的一切缪误，愚蠢和荒谬。
2. When I started in my new job, I was given a lot of footling tasks to do.
   我刚开始在新岗位上工作时，他们让我做许多无足轻重的事情。
3. Congress's response to recent bribery scandals has been to impose footling restrictions on lobbyists.
   国会对于近期行贿丑闻的回应是给说客强加了琐细的限制条款。

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:    fiddlinglilliputianlittlenigglingpiddlingpifflingpettypicayunetrivial