Negligible

(adj.) so small as to be meaningless; insignificant; 'the effect was negligible' .

(adj.) not worth considering; 'he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost'; 'piffling efforts'; 'a trifling matter' .

整理:泰勒

• Everybody outside the Hellenic circle was a barbarian, and negligible save as a possible enemy. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Either he is not aware of their existence at all, or he dismisses them as merely negligible--things which are vital to the other person. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• It was that of all the people he had grown up among, and he had always regarded it as necessary but negligible. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Yet I do not wish to furnish the impression that crises are negligible. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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