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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He went straight into his room, his face quite calm perhaps a trifle more resolute than usual.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even had it been under commonplace circumstances, it would have made me a trifle thoughtful; but in the first place was the singulari-ty of an educated man living on this unknown little island, and coupled with that the extraordinary nature of his lug-gage.
-- 'That alters the case a little, Mr. Prendick,' he said, with a trifle more respect in his manner.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he seemed as if suddenly resolved to trifle no longer, and moved resolutely forward.
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：
-- I admire their polish their youth is already so accomplished that it seems absurd to speak of promise I marvel at the felicity of their style; but with all their copiousness (their vocabulary suggests that they fingered Roget's Thesaurus in their cradles) they say nothing to me: to my mind they know too much and feel too obviously; I cannot stomach the heartiness with which they slap me on the back or the emotion with which they hurl themselves on my bosom; their passion seems to me a little anaemic and their dreams a trifle dull.
-- "There are more cafes in Paris than one, at which to trifle away an idle hour."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wild young grandson makes answer to this and says, "You're as rich as rich can be; you have been at no uncommon expense on my account, you're saving up piles of money for my little sister that lives with you in a secret, stealthy, hugger-muggering kind of way and with no manner of enjoyment why can't you stand a trifle for your grown-up relation?"
-- said Quilp, seizing the trifle of wood before mentioned and throwing it at him with such dexterity that it was well the boy disappeared before it reached the spot on which he had stood.
-- 'The weight o' the pair, mum,' said George, eyeing them with the look of a man who was calculating within half an ounce or so, 'would be a trifle under that of Oliver Cromwell.'
-- 'I've got a little trifle here, now,' said Mr Slum, taking off his hat which was full of scraps of paper, 'a little trifle here, thrown off in the heat of the moment, which I should say was exactly the thing you wanted to set this place on fire with.
-- 'One of you is a trifle too old for that sort of work, and the other a trifle too young.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "A trifle more of that man," he would say, "and I shall explode."
-- Yet, as I began to thread the grove that lies before it, I was not so thoughtless but that I slacked my pace and went a trifle warily.
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：
-- Look, here is a trifle of the red that underlay the gilt.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'What a trifle scares you!It's surely no great cause of alarm that Heathcliff should take a moonlight saunter on the moors, or even lie too sulky to speak to us in the hay loft.
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