trifle是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 琐事, 小事, 无价值的东西; vi. (with) 嘲笑, 轻视，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Pross's fidelity of belief in Sol-omon (deducting a mere trifle for this slight mistake) was quite a serious matter with Mr. Lorry, and had its weight in his good opinion of her.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He doesn't understand that she's one of those women who can't trifle with their feelings.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Passepartout was by no means one of those pert dunces depicted by Moliere with a bold gaze and a nose held high in the air; he was an honest fellow, with a pleasant face, lips a trifle protruding, soft-mannered and serviceable, with a good round head, such as one likes to see on the shoulders of a friend.
-- "Oh, a trifle of sea-sickness I've been staying in my berth.
-- Her two masts leaned a trifle backward; she carried brigantine, foresail, storm-jib, and standing-jib, and was well rigged for running before the wind; and she seemed capable of brisk speed, which, indeed, she had already proved by gaining several prizes in pilot-boat races.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- May your circulation proceed unchecked and particularly the dorsal carpal branch of the ulnar artery, in which connection, comrade, Prof. Dr. Col. Egbert Arrowsmith and I would fain trifle with another bottle of that renowned strawberry pop."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For ev-ery trifle he ran to Katerina Ivanovna, even hunting her out at the bazaar, at every instant called her 'Pani. '
-- He was obviously in an exceedingly good humour and perhaps a trifle exhilarated.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I have got a trifle of money somewhere about me, my dear,' saidMr. Barkis, 'but I'm a little tired.
-- I think of everylittle trifle between me and Dora, and feel the truth, that triflesmake the sum of life.
-- 738'I descended- as I might have known I should, but that hefascinated me with his boyish courtship- into a doll, a trifle for theoccupation of an idle hour, to be dropped, and taken up, andtrifled with, as the inconstant humour took him.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But while so many were devoting him to Emma, and Emma herself making him over to Harriet, Mr. Knightley began to suspect him of some inclination to trifle with Jane Fair-fax.
-- Weston do not trifle with me. Consider how many of my dearest friends are now in Brunswick Square.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I will go on," he said; adding hesitatingly, "Since you are not very well off, perhaps you would accept this trifle from me.
-- But I mid see a little distance into things!To be long-headed enough for a baily's place is a poor mere trifle yet a trifle more than nothing.
-- "If you do care so much for a silly trifle of that kind, then, I don't mind doing it," she uncertainly and doubtingly answered.
-- I don't trifle with him; but then, I have nothing to do with him."
-- Yet I would rather my trifle were hid; though, perhaps, a high nater is a little high, and at my birth all things were possible to my Maker, and he may have begrudged no gifts....
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The black bombazine, withits puffed sleeves and princess lace collar, set off her white skin superbly, but it did make her look a trifle elderly.
-- When he came to call, his complete masculinity made Aunt Pitty's well-bredand ladylike house seem small, pale and a trifle fusty.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "If you can cough any trifle on it up, Pip, I'd recommend you to do it," said Joe, all aghast.
-- Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.
-- Maybe I'm a growing a trifle old besides."
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He received it with abundance of thanks, more than such a trifle could deserve.
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