small beer

单词small beer

基本解释

n.: 指微不足道的人或物；低浓度啤酒

权威解释

• （相比较之下）无足轻重的人（或事物）:

  a person or thing that has no great importance or value, especially when compared with sb/sth else

英汉解释

• 低浓度啤酒

• 〈非正式〉用于英式英语,指微不足道的人或物

例句

• One small beer, and chicken basket. Just a minute, please.

  一小瓶啤酒，篮装鸡肉，请等一会儿。

• So, in the great scheme of the mathematical universe, the numbers being bandied about over the last few weeks are pretty small beer.

  因此，在数学宇宙那浩瀚无边的海洋里，最近几周被信手拈来脱口而出的那些数字简直就是小巫见大巫，微不足道了。

• Art is small beer. The really serious things in life are earning one"s living so as not to be a parasite, and loving one"s neighbour.

  艺术是不足挂齿的。生活中真正要紧的事情一是自食其力、不做寄生虫，一是爱人如己。

• Barclays" commodity positions were no doubt small beer.

  巴克莱的大宗商品头寸无疑只是小菜一碟。

• Microsoft"s push into video gaming is small beer compared with its dominance of the global software industry.

  相对微软在全球软件行业的霸主地位而言，进攻游戏领域只不过是它的一碟开胃小菜。

• Now, says one Bank economist privately, Doha could mean only "small beer" for the poor.

  一位银行经济学家私下透露，现在的多哈谈判对穷人来讲意义不大。

• The present holder of the position is quite small beer compared with his predecessor.

  目前的这个在位人和他的前任相比差远了。

• But against the backdrop of the major transatlantic tie-ups, this plan is looking fairly small beer.

  但与跨大西洋的大型结盟交易相比，这一计划就显得很微不足道了。

• Berlin, Macmillan said, seemed to him small beer compared to the destruction of humanity.

  麦克米伦说，同人类的毁灭相比，柏林问题在他看来，只不过是微不足道的。

• We had the porridge cold again at noon, and hot porridge at night, porridge and small beer was my uncle"s diet.

  中午吃的又是冷粥，晚上才有热粥吃，我伯伯的食谱就是粥和一点啤酒。