pettifogging

pettifogging

1. practising pettifogging in some corner or other.

" “彭眉胥男爵先生大概在什么地方兜揽诉讼。”

2. It was hard, he thought, to be within sight of safety and almost of Home, and to be baulked by the want of a few wretched shillings and by the pettifogging mistrustfulness of paid officials.

他心想，眼看就要到手的安全和归家，想不到只因为缺少几个臭钱，因为车站办事员吹毛求疵，故意刁难。

3. The handling is simple and is a far cry from pettifogging tidy structure.

处理简单，是相去甚远讼棍整齐的结构。

4. pettifogging about a trivial clause in a contract.

就合同中一条无关紧要的条款挑理

5. a pettifogging lawyer's mind;

挑剔的律师意见；

6. pettifogging details, objections, etc

无关宏旨的细节﹑ 异议等.

7. 4.Freed from the pettifogging concerns of quibbling lawyers and self-serving politicians, goes the argument, he can concentrate on eradicating extremism.

有个论调说，摆脱了吹毛求疵的律师和自私的政客们的所谓的关心，他能够集中精力根除极端主义。

8. See through the trick of pettifogging "Fu Hui"

识破诡辩的"附会"把戏

9. Trying to make up for this mistake by imposing pettifogging conditions on assisted institutions is more likely to compound the error than to reduce it.

通过对受救助机构施加挑剔的条件，来设法弥补这一错误，只可能加剧而非减轻错误。

10. Marius, my boy, you are a Baron, you are rich, don't go to pettifogging, I beg of you.

马吕斯，我的孩子，你是男爵，你富有，我求你不要再去当律师了。”