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trifle

C2 noun

trifle /ˈtɹaɪfəl/ nghĩa là trifle

Các nghĩa

  1. trifle

    An English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream.

    countable · uncountable

    It is interesting to watch the surface joviality on screen while racism is layered between courses like soggy trifles.

  2. chuyện vặt

    Anything that is of little importance or worth.

    countable · figuratively · uncountable

    Trifles light as air / Are to the jealous confirmation strong / As proofs of holy writ.

    Olde Chaucer doth of Topas tell, / Mad Rablais of Pantagruell, / A latter third of Dowsabell, / With such poore trifles playing:

    ‘And all about a rattle!’ said Alice, still hoping to make them a little ashamed of fighting for such a trifle.

  3. số tiền nhỏ

    An insignificant amount of money.

    countable · figuratively · uncountable

    A trifle, some eight-penny matter.

    He told her of horses which he had bought for a trifle and sold for incredible sums […]

    What’s eighty dollars? A trifle. An insignificant sum.

  4. một chút

    A very small amount (of something).

    countable · figuratively · uncountable

    This Line leaves out […] Poplar and Black-vvall, vvhich are indeed contiguous, a Trifle of Ground excepted, and very populous.

    There was a good deal of rustling and whispering behind the curtain, a trifle of lamp smoke, and an occasional giggle from Amy […]

    “Take just a trifle of French mustard […]”

  5. loại thiếc đặc biệt

    A particular kind of pewter.

    countable · uncountable

  6. đồ dùng bằng thiếc

    Utensils made from this particular kind of pewter.

    uncountable

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