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picayune

英[ˌpɪkə'juːn],

释义

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”; 网络释义: 尤恩;皮卡尤恩;微小的;

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.

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