small beer

美 　英

• n.指微不足道的人或物；低濃度啤酒
• 網(wǎng)絡(luò)淡啤酒；難道啤酒還分大小；小啤酒

英漢雙解

英漢解釋

n.	1. 〈非正式〉用于英式英語(yǔ),指微不足道的人或物 2. 低濃度啤酒

英英解釋

n.	1. <informal>sb. or sth. that is not important or is not worth thinking about 2. weak or inferior beer

例句

One small beer, and chicken basket. Just a minute, please.

一小瓶啤酒，籃裝雞肉，請(qǐng)等一會(huì)兒。

So, in the great scheme of the mathematical universe, the numbers being bandied about over the last few weeks are pretty small beer.

因此，在數(shù)學(xué)宇宙那浩瀚無(wú)邊的海洋里，最近幾周被信手拈來(lái)脫口而出的那些數(shù)字簡(jiǎn)直就是小巫見(jiàn)大巫，微不足道了。

Art is small beer. The really serious things in life are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite, and loving one's neighbour.

藝術(shù)是不足掛齒的。生活中真正要緊的事情一是自食其力、不做寄生蟲(chóng)，一是愛(ài)人如己。

Barclays' commodity positions were no doubt small beer.

巴克萊的大宗商品頭寸無(wú)疑只是小菜一碟。

Microsoft's push into video gaming is small beer compared with its dominance of the global software industry.

相對(duì)微軟在全球軟件行業(yè)的霸主地位而言，進(jìn)攻游戲領(lǐng)域只不過(guò)是它的一碟開(kāi)胃小菜。

Now, says one Bank economist privately, Doha could mean only "small beer" for the poor.

一位銀行經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)家私下透露，現(xiàn)在的多哈談判對(duì)窮人來(lái)講意義不大。

The present holder of the position is quite small beer compared with his predecessor.

目前的這個(gè)在位人和他的前任相比差遠(yuǎn)了。

But against the backdrop of the major transatlantic tie-ups, this plan is looking fairly small beer.

但與跨大西洋的大型結(jié)盟交易相比，這一計(jì)劃就顯得很微不足道了。

Berlin, Macmillan said, seemed to him small beer compared to the destruction of humanity.

麥克米倫說(shuō)，同人類(lèi)的毀滅相比，柏林問(wèn)題在他看來(lái)，只不過(guò)是微不足道的。

We had the porridge cold again at noon, and hot porridge at night, porridge and small beer was my uncle's diet.

中午吃的又是冷粥，晚上才有熱粥吃，我伯伯的食譜就是粥和一點(diǎn)啤酒。

The sums involved were small beer for a behemoth like GE.

涉及金額對(duì)財(cái)大氣粗的通用來(lái)說(shuō)不過(guò)是九牛一毛。

Waiter: One small beer, German sausage, rolls, apple pie with cheese and coffee.

服務(wù)員：一小瓶啤酒，德國(guó)香腸，小面包，乳酪蘋(píng)果餡餅和咖啡。

She thinks small beer of painters, . . . -Well, we don't think small beer of ourselves.

她瞧不起畫(huà)家……――不過(guò)，我們倒不小看自己。

The charges against Lee Kun-hee, the 66-year-old chairman of Samsung, seem small beer compared with the accusations.

和其他指控相比，針對(duì)三星主席66歲的李健熙的就算不了什么了。

One small beer, one German sausage and rolls. Also apple pie with cheese, please.

一小瓶啤酒，一根德國(guó)香腸和小面包，也要帶乳酪的蘋(píng)果餡餅，請(qǐng)。

This goody-goody little form is small beer when set against what is emerging from some US business schools.

與某些美國(guó)商學(xué)院的新近發(fā)生的事情相比，這種冠冕堂皇的小表格簡(jiǎn)直是小巫見(jiàn)大巫。

One unit is roughly equivalent to a glass of wine or a small beer.

一個(gè)單位的酒精粗略地等于一杯葡萄酒或一杯淡啤酒。

That grant was pretty small beer : we shall need a lot more money.

這點(diǎn)補(bǔ)助金是杯水車(chē)薪，我們需要的錢(qián)遠(yuǎn)比這些多。

Iago. To suckle fools and chronicle small beer.

伊阿古去奶傻孩子，去記油鹽賬。

That grant was pretty small beer we shall need a lot of more money.

那補(bǔ)助款太微不足道了，我們需要比這多得多的錢(qián)。

Oh, a small beer - some kind of lager will DO.

哦，一小杯啤酒——某種淡啤酒就行。

Even the dollar's recent drop is small beer.

甚至美元在近期貶值也是微不足道的。

Don't worry about giving me the change; it's small beer anyway.

不要為給我找頭而煩惱，那是微不足道的事情。

But this is small beer compared with issues at home.

但與國(guó)內(nèi)問(wèn)題相比，這只是小菜一碟。

By recent standards, that is small beer.

按照近期的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)，這只是小菜一碟。

That is hardly small beer.

那個(gè)確實(shí)是有點(diǎn)難。

i won ' t turn out for small beer and biscuits , tell her

告訴她，不好好準(zhǔn)備我才不會(huì)出席

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I'll have a small beer

給我一點(diǎn)兒啤酒。