trivial是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 不重要的, 琐屑的; 平常的, 平凡的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I mention this small episode because it assumes some importance in view of the tragedy which followed, but I was convinced at the time that the matter was entirely trivial and that his ex-citement had no justification.
-- Our conversation was hampered by the presence of the driver of the hired wagonette, so that we were forced to talk of trivial matters when our nerves were tense with emotion and anticipation.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes the most trivial thing annoyed Mrs. Epanchin, and drove her into a frenzy.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Those are trivial cases of alteration.
-- The creature was scarcely so in-telligent as the Ape-man, but far more docile, and the most human-looking of all the Beast Folk; and Montgomery had trained it to prepare food, and indeed to discharge all the trivial domestic offices that were required.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But one fact he made clear to me; people talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They parted with apparent unconcern, as if their going apart were a trivial occurrence.
-- And they really kept it to the level of trivial occurrence.
-- "At being lovers, I suppose," she said, a little baffled, yet so trivial she made it all seem.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the shop next day she heard the highly coloured reports which girls give of their trivial amusements.
-- "No, just feeling a little ill." "I remember Mrs. Hurstwood when she was travelling once with you over to St. Joe--" and here the newcomer launched off in a trivial recollection, which was terminated by the arrival of more friends.
-- She little knew the trivial authority of this individual, or that had there been a vacancy an actor would have been sent on from New York to fill it.
-- "I don't know," he said one day, taking a trivial expenditure for meat as a text, "it seems to take an awful lot for us to live."
-- It was a trivial thing to say, and yet something in the way she did it caught the audience, which laughed heartily at the mock- fierce potentate towering before the young woman.
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