picayune

美 　英 [?p?k?'ju?n]

• n.(原在美國路易斯安那州及南部各州流通的)西班牙小錢幣
• adj.同“picayunish”
• 網(wǎng)絡尤恩；皮卡尤恩；微小的

詞形變化

復數(shù)：picayunes  

英漢解釋

n.	1. (原在美國路易斯安那州及南部各州流通的)西班牙小錢幣;〈美〉小錢幣 2. 〈美口〉不值錢的東西,小人物,不重要的人
adj.	1. 同“picayunish”

英英解釋

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.

給警察提供一頓免費餐也許違反了法律，但這看起來只是個小小的違反。

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

通過一系列的逐步的整合過程，新奧爾良現(xiàn)在只有一家主流日報，泰晤士報-皮卡尤恩。

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

沒有意義的聲音；他的回答……是無聊而無意義的-R.B。畢爾索。

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

“這不是一間旅館”圣-塔馬尼縣應急籌備協(xié)會的主任在1999年對Times-Picayune報的記者說。

Picayune demands that all but confounded the peacetalks.

這些瑣碎的要求只會使和平談判受挫。

i had a story published in the picayune

我有一部小說在picayune出版