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footling

1. Central to the 10:10 campaign is an acknowledgement that the kind of action we are typically urged to take to combat climate change is all too often either footling or forbiddingly hair-shirted.

10：10运动的中心思想是承认，一般能促使我们采取的应对气候变化行动，往往不是微不足道，就是令人生畏的自我约束。

2. single footling

不完全臀

3. from head to footl

从头到脚; 全身; 完全

4. All that inapprehensible questions I considered at that time were so footling and grotesque I feel nowadays.

伤心的时候什么也不说，只是将我轻轻拥住。

5. Where have you been footling around?

你游荡到哪儿去了?

6. 2.Stop footling about, we have serious work to do.

别浪费时间了我们还有正经事要做。

7. Stop footling about,we have serious work to do.

别浪费时间了，我们还有正经事要做。

8. a footling gesture;

动作细微的手势；

9. Congress's response to recent bribery scandals has been to impose footling restrictions on lobbyists.

国会对于近期行贿丑闻的回应是给说客强加了琐细的限制条款。

10. Already, complaints about Chinese goods being dumped at below production cost take up an inordinate amount of time (recent footling disputes have involved light bulbs and tinned satsumas).

很自然的是，法国可能会领导这场“非互惠”运动，也就是说，除非中国能够满足欧盟的需要，否则欧盟就会对中国关闭其市场。

11. A footling gesture.

无用的手势

12. talk the most footling rot

讲无聊透顶的废话

13. footling presentation

足先露 脚踏莲花生 足位产

14. Footling breech delivery

足先露臀位分娩

15. Here's a mouth-frother, here's a bigot, here's a stiff-necked buffoon who, in one ranting article, shows all that is wrong, footling and absurd about modern China.

这个满嘴废话的家伙,这个偏执狂。这个傲慢的小丑，在一篇咆哮的文章里,表现了关于现代中国的一切缪误,愚蠢和荒谬。

16. Now here's another lunatic. Here's a mouth-frother, here's a bigot, here's a stiff-necked buffoon who, in one ranting article, shows all that is wrong, footling and absurd about modern China.

这儿又来了一个疯子。这个满嘴废话的家伙,这个偏执狂。这个傲慢的小丑，在一篇咆哮的文章里,表现了关于现代中国的一切缪误,愚蠢和荒谬。

17. Unless the economy starts to recover powerfully enough to cut America's high unemployment levels, this modest set of policies will seem footling.

除非经济强劲反弹的力度大到能将美国的高失业率降下来，不然这种动作不大的政策将作用有限。