There were twenty piddling little fountains.

他扎了水管二十钎子，二十道小喷泉喷了出来，像撒尿一样。

Oh, talkin' to one piddling underFae.

噢 跟一个微足道的低等异种。

Wedgwood wanted to " astonish the world... for I hate piddling" .

韦奇伍德想要“震惊世界… … 因为我讨厌小打小闹”。

Why do I have to listen to this piddling gobbledegook?

我为什么要听这种琐碎的官样文章？

Then, suddenly, it fell out of fashion, coming to be seen as piddling, not astonishing.

然后，突然间，它再流，被认为关紧要的，什么令人震撼的东西。

I felt that one look at Vic's switchblade knife and gimlet gaze would have put Hayley's piddling domestic problems in some kind of reasonable perspective.

我觉得看到维克的弹簧刀和锐利目光能让哈里那些微足道的家庭问题变得合情合理一点。

He's just a piddling, do-less, good-for-nothing" ! Swiftly Melanie dismissed the playmate of her childhood and the beau of her teen years. " I blame myself about Archie.

他简直个游手好闲、什么事也会干、一点用处也没有的家伙！" 媚兰把她这个童年时代的玩伴儿、少女时代的情郎迅速摒弃了。" 关于阿尔奇，这要怪我自己，我该庇护这个老恶棍。

Having already lifted rates by nearly five percentage points over the past year—its steepest tightening in four decades—the latest increase of a quarter-point was, in numerical terms, piddling.

在过去的一年里已经将利率提高了近五个百分点——这 40 年来最大幅度的紧缩——从数字上看，最近的 25 个基点的增长微乎其微。

By his reckoning, only 8.5% of projects meet their initial estimates on cost and time, and a piddling 0.5% achieve what they set out to do on cost, time and benefits.

据他估计，只有 8.5% 的项目达到了他们最初对成本和时间的估计，只有区区 0.5% 的项目在成本、时间和收益方面达到了他们设定的目标。