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trifle

C2 verb

trifle /ˈtɹaɪfəl/ nghĩa là coi nhẹ, xem thường

Các nghĩa

  1. coi nhẹ, xem thường

    To deal with something as if it were of little importance or worth.

    intransitive

    You must not trifle with her affections.

    […] Do not believe / That, from the sense of all civility, / I thus would play and trifle with your reverence:

    “Miss Bennet,” replied her ladyship, in an angry tone, “you ought to know, that I am not to be trifled with […]”

  2. đùa cợt, bỡn cợt

    To act, speak, or otherwise behave with jest.

    intransitive

    […] playing and trifling are completely banished out of my mind […]

    But he was terribly roused too and bound to go on; he wasn’t just trifling but intended something.

  3. đùa giỡn, nghịch

    To inconsequentially toy with something.

    intransitive

    Mr. Micawber, leaning back in his chair, trifled with his eye-glass and cast his eyes up at the ceiling […]

    She sat in a café, trifling with her coffee spoon.

  4. phung phí, lãng phí

    To squander or waste.

    transitive

    We trifle time: I pray thee, pursue sentence.

    As it was, he did nothing with much zeal, but sport; and his time was otherwise trifled away, without benefit from books or anything else.

    You who have known neither sorrow nor pleasure; who have trifled your life away!

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