picayune

picayune

美 　英 [ˌpɪkə'juːn]

• n.(原在美国路易斯安那州及南部各州流通的)西班牙小钱币
• adj.同“picayunish”
• 网络尤恩；皮卡尤恩；微小的

词形变化

复数：picayunes  

英汉解释

n.	1. (原在美国路易斯安那州及南部各州流通的)西班牙小钱币;〈美〉小钱币 2. 〈美口〉不值钱的东西,小人物,不重要的人
adj.	1. 同“picayunish”

英英解释

adj.	1. Same as picayunish

例句

giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction.

给警察提供一顿免费餐也许违反了法律，但这看起来只是个小小的违反。

Through a process of gradual consolidation, New Orleans now has only one major daily, the Times-Picayune.

通过一系列的逐步的整合过程，新奥尔良现在只有一家主流日报，泰晤士报-皮卡尤恩。

insignificant sounds; his response. . . is picayune and unmeaning- R. B. Pearsall.

没有意义的声音；他的回答……是无聊而无意义的-R.B。毕尔索。

"It's not a hotel, " the director of emergency preparedness for St. Tammany parish told the Times-Picayune in 1999.

“这不是一间旅馆”圣-塔马尼县应急筹备协会的主任在1999年对Times-Picayune报的记者说。

Picayune demands that all but confounded the peacetalks.

这些琐碎的要求只会使和平谈判受挫。

i had a story published in the picayune

我有一部小说在picayune出版