pettifoggery
基本解釋
- n.訟棍的手段；欺瞞
英漢例句
- The hand responds to the heart, the pettifoggery is expressive, is in the folk art essence.
心手相應，刀筆傳神，爲民間藝術中的精華。 - A witty, soft-hearted man of the scholar class (a xiu-cai), he has given up law practice (pettifoggery) to run an inn.
宋世傑是一個機智的、寬厚的的秀才，他封筆絕訟，經營著一家客棧。 - The cost of all this pettifoggery is huge—unless, that is, you are a member of one of the cartels that pushes for pettifogging rules or an employee of one of the bureaucratic bodies charged with enforcing them.
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