Mutual pettiness can bring people together, too.

一些小的共同话题也能让人们走到一起。

For an employee to deny such a conference shows pettiness and resentment.

对于一名员工来说，拒绝参加这样的离职谈话是小气怨恨的表现。

We're tough, we're wise, and we're way above this pettiness.

我们坚强睿智 并非空有好皮囊。

Admit that there was then less egotism and less pettiness.

承认那时没有那么多的自负小气。

One Facebook user asked, " Why are we accepting this immaturity and pettiness to be the state of American politics? "

“为什么美国的政治进程非得用这种幼稚的手段进行？”

I thank God for that moment of happiness: for showing me my pettiness and my greatness.

我为那一刻的幸福感谢上帝：让我看到我的渺小伟大。

I keep things moving in a Congress choked by pettiness and lassitude.

我负责在党间斗争的国会中 推动议案。

And can I get over the pettiness and overlook things and ease back a little bit?

我可克服琐事而忽事情并放松一点吗？

Overridden by military methods and bureaucratic pettiness, Prussia was only beginning to free her hands from internal bonds.

普鲁士被军事手段官僚主义所压倒， 才刚刚开始摆脱内部束缚。

Let's resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.

党派之争、琐碎幼稚，来这些东西荼毒了我们的政坛。

But there was a branch house at the west end, and no pettiness or dinginess to give suggestions of shame.

但是在西头有一个分院，没有小气或肮脏的暗示可耻。

His discontent, due to the pettiness and vanity of his immediate superiors, grew until an opportunity offered to enter the Senate.

由于他的顶头上司的狭隘虚荣心， 他的不满情绪不断增， 直到有机会进入参议院。

In the other group, you find writers who dive headlong into our shared world of romance and pettiness, family and political squabbling.

在另一组中，你会发现作家们一头扎进我们共同的浪漫琐碎、家庭政治争吵的世界。

Or—to put the thing less cynically—we may be better in new clean words, which have never been tainted by our pettiness or vice.

或者——用不那么愤世嫉俗的话来说——我们可能会用新的干净的词更好， 这些词从未被我们的小气或恶习玷污过。

Now I am well aware that pettiness and grandeur, malice and charity, hatred and love, can find place side by side in the same human heart.

与伟大、恶毒与善良、仇恨与热爱是可互不排斥地并存在同一颗心里的。

In the aspect of this dark-arrayed, pale-faced, ladylike old figure there was a deeply tragic character that contrasted irreconcilably with the ludicrous pettiness of her employment.

在这个衣着黝黑、面色苍白、淑女风范的老人身上，有一种深深的悲剧性格，与她工作的可笑琐碎形成了不可调的对比。

Julien saw nothing in this except the pettiness of spirit of a country bourgeois. At last he was going to make an appearance in the theatre of great events.

于连在这方面只看出了一个乡下资产者的心胸狭隘。他终于要在重大事件的舞台上露面了。

You know, as much as I'm gonna miss you when you're in Providence, having separate lives ensures no competition, which means no high school pettiness.

你要是去普罗维登斯的话我会很想你的，但我们分开生活 也就不用相互竞争，高中的那些事也就不会再出现。

His pettiness would be dispersed, and as for his " unconventionality, " which was so much gossiped about at Sawston, she began to see that it did not differ greatly from certain familiar notions of her own.

他的小气会被驱散，至于他在索斯顿被传得沸沸扬扬的“不循规蹈矩”，她开始发现这与她自己的某些熟悉的观念并无太大区别。