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insignificance n.1.無意義;不足道;無價值;不重要。2.低微,可鄙。

insignificancy

With such rivals for the notice of the fair , as mr . wickham and the officers , mr . collins seemed likely to sink into insignificance ; to the young ladies he certainly was nothing ; but he had still at intervals a kind listener in mrs . philips , and was , by her watchfulness , most abundantly supplied with coffee and muffin 說起要博得女性的青眼,柯林斯先生遇到象韋翰先生和軍官們這樣的勁敵,真變得無足輕重了。他在小姐們眼睛里實在算不上什么,幸虧好心的腓力普太太有時候還聽聽他談主,她又十分細心,盡量把咖啡和松餅敬給他吃。

After four days spent in solitude and boredom , with a continual sense of dependence and insignificance , particularly galling after the position of power which he had hitherto occupied , after several marches with the marshals baggage and the french troops , who were in possession of the whole district , balashov was brought back to vilna , now occupied by the french , and re - entered the town by the very gate by which he had left it four days earlier 在過了四天孤獨寂寞,感到受人支配和卑微的生活之后,特別是在不久前還生活于那種聲勢顯赫的圈子,在跟隨元帥的行李車和這個地區的法國占領軍行進了幾站路后,這種受人支配和卑微的感覺更強烈了。巴拉瑟夫被送到現已被法軍占領的維爾納,進了四天前他走出的那座城門。

The main results are : supersonic region and subsonic region can co - exist in flow path simultaneously , subsonic flow is insignificance for engine performance ; total pressure of primary rocket should be decreased when mach number is increased . in the experimental aspect , some components of ejectorjet experimental system were improved , ejectorjet experiments using alcohol as secondary fuel were conducted 由數值計算獲得的結論為:引射火箭內的一般流態為超音速區與亞音速區共存,亞音速區不具備做功能力;飛行馬赫數增大,引射火箭內更易于產生壅塞;為了獲得最佳的性能,隨著飛行馬赫數的提高,應當降低一次火箭的工作壓強。

The more deeply we search out the causes the more of them we discover ; and every cause , and even a whole class of causes taken separately , strikes us as being equally true in itself , and equally deceptive through its insignificance in comparison with the immensity of the result , and its inability to produce without all the other causes that concurred with it the effect that followed 在探索戰爭原因時我們愈是深入,發現也愈多,獲取的每一孤立原因或是一系列原因就其本身來說都是正確的,但就其與事件的重大比較所顯出的微不足道而言,這些原因又同樣都是錯誤的,就這些原因不足以引起事件的發生來說如果沒有其他各種原因巧合的話,也同樣是不真實的。

I have not had time for a word with you , prince , in the engrossing conversation into which i was dragged by that excellent old gentleman , he said , with a smile of bland contempt , by which he seemed to take for granted that prince andrey and himself were at one in recognising the insignificance of the people with whom he had just been talking “這個可敬的老頭硬把我拖去參與一次令人興奮的談話,公爵,在談話當中我來不及同您談談, ”他說道,臉上流露著溫和而輕蔑的微笑,仿佛在微笑之中承認,他和安德烈公爵都明白,他甫才與之交談的那些人都是小人物。

2 problems of providing family planning education and contraception services are serious enough , but compared with miseries of tracing and coping with countless thousands of married women who are adrift everywhere to have a boy because they have used up the quota allotted by local governments for the number of babies to be born , they almost disappear into insignificance 進行計劃生育教育和提供避孕工具,這些工作已夠困難了,但比起尋找和處理成千上萬那些已用完了當地政府所給的生育指標而流浪在外、想生一個男孩的婦女來說,幾乎是微不足道。

The cardiff hill episode sank into instant insignificance , the burglars were forgotten , horses were saddled , skiffs were manned , the ferryboat ordered out , and before the horror was half an hour old , two hundred men were pouring down highroad and river toward the cave 大家套上馬鞍,給小船配好劃手,叫渡船出發,不到半個時辰,全鎮就有二百多個人潮水般順著公路和河流向山洞涌去。

There can be no love in all this . my watchfulness has been effectual ; and though i should certainly be a more interesting object to all my acquaintance , were i distractedly in love with him , i cannot say that i regret my comparative insignificance 我的小心提防并不是枉然的要是我狂戀著他,親友們就一定會把我看作一個更有趣的話柄了,我決不因為人家不十分器重我而竟會感到遺憾。

He was proud that she was so clever and so good , recognising his own insignificance beside her in the spiritual world , and he rejoiced the more that she , with her soul , not only belonged to him , but was a part of his very self 他為妻子的聰明才智而感到驕傲,他也意識到自己的精神世界與妻子相比,是大為遜色的,他更感到高興的是,她不僅身心屬于他,而且成了他的不可分割的一部分。

Mayan gods penetrate and influence the mayan spiritual and material life , which expresses man ' s worship and respect for the mysterious and mighty nature and insignificance and weakness of man ' s power before nature as well 瑪雅諸神的觀念滲透并影響到瑪雅人精神和物質生活,這些活動表現了人在神秘而充滿智慧和力量的大自然面前的敬畏和崇拜,同時又表現了人的力量的渺小和軟弱。

The afternoon ' s game almost paled into insignificance following the lengthy celebrations but the decision to allow claude makelele to take the stoppage time penalty with the game scoreless was definitely not part of the mourinho masterplan 在盛大的慶典之后今天下午暗淡無光的比賽已經無關大局,但是補時階段由馬克萊萊主罰點球打破球荒倒絕對不是穆里尼奧宏偉計劃中的一部分。

Her spirits were materially reduced , owing to the newly restored sense of magnitude of the great interests and the insignificance of her claims upon society , such as she understood them to be 這一番經歷讓她重新意識到這些財大氣粗的企業高不可攀,而她個人的資格照她自己看來實在太微不足道,無法得到社會的重視。這一來她的勇氣和信心又一落千丈。

His talent for long distance running brings him nothing but endless emptiness and perplexity . his pride and inferiority as well as his greatness and insignificance bear testimony to the inequalities in the society 然而諷刺的是,史密夫的人生悲劇在這里才真正開始,他的天賦長跑才能竟為他帶來無盡的空虛與困惑。

The interest rate differential of one per cent per annum would obviously pale into insignificance if there were an adverse exchange rate movement of , for the sake of argument , also one per cent in a week 舉例來說,假如匯率走勢出現不利發展,一星期出現1 %的變動,那么相比起來,一年1 %的息差便算不得甚么。

The incompetence of his colleagues , the weakness and insignificance of his opponents , the frankness of the deception , and the dazzling and self - confident limitation of the man raise him to the head of the army 同僚的淺薄無知對手的軟弱而渺小本人的撒謊本領華而不實和剛愎自用使他成為軍隊的首腦。

The impotence of medical services to change life expectancy and insignificance of much contemporary clinical care in the curing of disease are all obvious , well - documented 譯:醫療服務不能改變預期壽命,許多當代的臨床護理在治病中所起的作用也并不重要,這些都是毫無疑問的,有大量文件證明了的。

It was as though in this circle the utter insignificance of these prominent persons was so completely accepted that the only attitude possible towards them was one of good - humoured hilarity 這群人似乎一口斷定這些公務人員都是微不足道的,對他們的唯一的態度只能是善心的訕笑。

Science enables man to see sensibly the pride of mankind , love to experience the joy between man and woman , and philosophy to perceive the insignificance of an individual 科學使人理性地看到人類的驕傲,愛情讓人體味到人與人之間的美好,哲學則使人感慨人自身的渺小。

After listening to these words , the frog of the shallow well was shocked into realization of his own insignificance and became very ill at ease 聽了東海之鱉的這些話,淺井里的青蛙為他自己的渺小感到很震驚,為自己的安逸感到很不愉快。