footling

常見例句

雙語例句

• Congress's response to recent bribery scandals has been to impose footling restrictions on lobbyists.
  國會對於近期行賄醜聞的廻應(yīng)是給說客強加了瑣細的限制條款。
• “REVOLUTION” is an overused word; the latest footling change often hyped into the biggest revolution since the last one.
  時下“革命”是個爛詞，任何最新的無用的變化經(jīng)常誇張的稱之爲(wèi)上一次革命以來最大的革命。
• Unless the economy starts to recover powerfully enough to cut America’s high unemployment levels, this modest set of policies will seem footling.
  除非經(jīng)濟強勁反彈的力度大到能將美國的高失業(yè)率降下來，不然這種動作不大的政策將作用有限。

權(quán)威例句

• This footling stuff is only of any interest because it is about the queen.
  ECONOMIST: Why the queen has to be seen to be believed
• Treasury traditionalists may regard these apparently footling changes as a shocking breach of time-honoured tradition.
  ECONOMIST: Taxation
• Georgia is a clannish country in which doing favours for friends is regarded as a moral obligation—far more so than obeying footling little rules.
  ECONOMIST: Edward Shevardnadze, Georgia’s foxy president
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