footling

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Congress's response to recent bribery scandals has been to impose footling restrictions on lobbyists.
國會(huì)對(duì)于近期行賄丑聞的回應(yīng)是給說客強(qiáng)加了瑣細(xì)的限制條款。
“REVOLUTION” is an overused word; the latest footling change often hyped into the biggest revolution since the last one.
時(shí)下“革命”是個(gè)爛詞，任何最新的無用的變化經(jīng)?？鋸埖姆Q之為上一次革命以來最大的革命。
Unless the economy starts to recover powerfully enough to cut America’s high unemployment levels, this modest set of policies will seem footling.
除非經(jīng)濟(jì)強(qiáng)勁反彈的力度大到能將美國的高失業(yè)率降下來，不然這種動(dòng)作不大的政策將作用有限。

This footling stuff is only of any interest because it is about the queen.
ECONOMIST: Why the queen has to be seen to be believed
Treasury traditionalists may regard these apparently footling changes as a shocking breach of time-honoured tradition.
ECONOMIST: Taxation
Georgia is a clannish country in which doing favours for friends is regarded as a moral obligation—far more so than obeying footling little rules.
ECONOMIST: Edward Shevardnadze, Georgia’s foxy president