Mutual pettiness can bring people together, too.

一些小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，拒绝参加这样离职谈话是小气怨恨表现。

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负小气。

And he clearly puts his own whims above the needs of the people and his own pettiness.

他显然把奇思妙想置于人民需求琐碎之上。

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

“为什么美政治进程非得用这种幼稚卑鄙手段进行？”

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

我为那一刻幸福感谢上帝：让我看到我渺小伟大。

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

我负责在党间斗会中 推动议案。

We have been freed from the cramp and pettiness imposed by life.

我们已经摆脱了生活所带来束缚琐碎。

No touch of pettiness, no hint of spite, rouse us from our contemplation.

没有一点琐事，没有一丝怨恨，可以唤醒我们沉思。

Instead of settling sectional disputes, the Compromise of 1850 had exacerbated the pettiness that made politics so distasteful.

1850年妥协案非但没有解决局部端, 反而加剧了让政治变得如此令人厌恶琐碎。

He will not be content until I'm dead. That is what his pettiness demands.

他不会满足，直到我死去。这是他狭隘所要求。

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

我可以克服琐事而忽视事情并放松一点吗？

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、琐碎幼稚，长期以来这些东西荼毒了我们政坛。

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.

由于他顶头上司狭隘虚荣心， 他不满情绪不断增长， 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浪漫琐碎、家庭政治吵世界。

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——用不那么愤世嫉俗话来说——我们可能会用新干净词更好， 这些词从未被我们小气或恶习玷污过。

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.

卑鄙与伟大、恶毒与善良、仇恨与热爱是可以互不排斥地并存在同一颗心里。