penny ante
基本解釋
- （打撲尅等）賭注小的賭博；小金額或小額硬幣的交易；無關(guān)緊要的事
英漢例句
- But the company is really penny-ante, he only owns one taxi and he drives it himself.
換句話說，他自己就是唯一那輛出租車的司機。 從這段話我們看出penny-ante的含義是微不足道的小事。 - But the company is really penny-ante - he only owns one taxi and he drives it himself.
換句話說，他自己就是唯一那輛出租車的司機。 從這段話我們看出penny-ante含義是微不足道的小事。 - There's a lot of penny-ante politics going on at our office.
在我們辦公室裡，有許多爲(wèi)了一些瑣碎小事而勾心鬭角的事情。 - Compared to the income and general sales tax hikes, the Amazon levy is penny ante stuff.
FORBES: Connecticut About To Adopt Amazon Internet Sales Tax - By the standards of professional sports, poker is distinctly a penny-ante game.
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