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 gave a trifle myself.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet his smile, in spite of its sweetness, was a little thin, if I may so call it, and showed his teeth too evenly; his gaze though decidedly good-humoured and ingenuous, was a trifle too inquisitive and intent to be altogether agreeable.
-- 'Aha!I think you are growing less cool, my friend, and are beginning to be a trifle surprised, aren't you?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As to their combining together; there are many of them, I have no doubt, that by watching and informing upon one another could earn a trifle now and then, whether in money or good will, and improve their livelihood.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She knew them all so intimately, and had such a pe-culiar, flamey zest in all their affairs, it was wonderful, if just a TRIFLE humiliating to listen to her.
-- But for all that, it was evident that when he was with her his voice dropped to an easy rhythm of intimacy, almost a trifle vulgar.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a misfortune to him, trifle as it might have been to another.
-- Beyond now appearing perhaps, to have been left hanging a trifle too long before that friendly operation of cutting down, he outwardly maintained an equable composure.
-- It was not easy to recover this shock and make the visit unrestrained, even though Fanny had not been, under the best of circumstances, the least trifle in the way.
-- He was going out of the way, on what he had been able to scrape up, and a trifle from me.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a good deal of rustling and whispering behind the curtain, a trifle of lamp smoke, and an occasional giggle from Amy, who was apt to get hysterical in the excitement of the moment.
-- Down they went, feeling a trifle timid, for they seldom went to parties, and informal as this little gathering was, it was an event to them.
-- exclaimed the boy, looking at her with much admiration, though he privately thought she would have good reason to be a trifle afraid of the old gen-tleman, if she met hem in some of his moods.
-- 'Go on, please,' said Laurie, as Jo became absorbed in her work, looking a trifle displeased.
-- You are rather too kind sometimes, and then just a trifle hasty when he tries your patience.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was a trifle above the middle size, and apparently rather weak in the legs; but this circumstance by no means detracted from his own admiration of his top-boots, which he contemplated, in their elevated situation, with lively satisfaction.
-- Fagin put several other questions: all with the same drift of ascertaining whether the girl had profited by his unguarded hints; but, she answered them so readily, and was withal so utterly unmoved by his searching looks, that his original impression of her being more than a trifle in liquor, was confirmed.
-- He had taken his station some half-way between the side-board and the breakfast-table; and, with his body drawn up to its full height, his head thrown back, and inclined the merest trifle on one side, his left leg advanced, and his right hand thrust into his waist-coat, while his left hung down by his side, grasping a waiter, looked like one who laboured under a very agreeable sense of his own merits and importance.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In as short a time as Mr. Collins's long speeches would al-low, everything was settled between them to the satisfaction of both; and as they entered the house he earnestly entreat-ed her to name the day that was to make him the happiest of men; and though such a solicitation must be waived for the present, the lady felt no inclination to trifle with his happi-ness.
-- Lady Catherine seemed quite astonished at not receiv-ing a direct answer; and Elizabeth suspected herself to be the first creature who had ever dared to trifle with so much dignified impertinence.
-- 'I would not on any account trifle with her affectionate solicitude; or -allow her to hear it from anyone but myself.
-- After a short pause, her companion added, 'You are too generous to trifle with me.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "So you can stay here and trifle around with some one else?"
-- "You may trifle around with him if you want to, but you can't lead me.
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