picayune

单词picayune

基本解释

n.: (原在美国路易斯安那州及南部各州流通的)西班牙小钱币
adj.: 同“picayunish”
网络: 尤恩；皮卡尤恩；微小的

英汉解释

• 〔美口〕不值钱的东西,小人物,不重要的人

• (原在美国路易斯安那州及南部各州流通的)西班牙小钱币;〔美国〕小钱币〔尤指五分辅币〕

词性分析

• 复数：picayunes

例句

• giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction.

  给警察提供一顿免费餐也许违反了法律，但这看起来只是个小小的违反。

• Through a process of gradual consolidation, New Orleans now has only one major daily, the Times-Picayune.

  通过一系列的逐步的整合过程，新奥尔良现在只有一家主流日报，泰晤士报-皮卡尤恩。

• insignificant sounds; his response. . . is picayune and unmeaning- R. B. Pearsall.

  没有意义的声音；他的回答……是无聊而无意义的-R.B。毕尔索。

• "It"s not a hotel, " the director of emergency preparedness for St. Tammany parish told the Times-Picayune in 1999.

  “这不是一间旅馆”圣-塔马尼县应急筹备协会的主任在1999年对Times-Picayune报的记者说。

• Picayune demands that all but confounded the peacetalks.

  这些琐碎的要求只会使和平谈判受挫。

• i had a story published in the picayune

  我有一部小说在picayune出版