鸡毛蒜皮的英文：
[Literal Meaning]
chicken/feather/garlic/skin
chicken feathers and garlic skins
[解释]
比喻无关紧要的小事或毫无价值的东西。
[Explanation]
trifles
[例子]
我们不能整天都把时间花在这些鸡毛蒜皮的亊情上。
[Example]
We should not waste out time on trifles all day.
- excitable and turbulent in trifling matters, when actual bodily danger threatened he was an abnormal quiet.
他往往会为了鸡毛蒜皮的小事脾气急躁，暴跳如雷，可是真正碰到了生命的威胁，却反而镇静异常。 - It's silly to quarrel over trifles.
为鸡毛蒜皮的小事争吵真不值得. - You have grossly magnified a trivial situation.
你过分地夸大了一件鸡毛蒜皮的小事 - Have long,arid discussions about unimportant matters
对鸡毛蒜皮的事进行的冗长而枯燥的讨论. - They are continually quarreling,but it is usually a storm in a teacup.
他们常常为了一点鸡毛蒜皮的事而争吵不休。 - Don't pester me with your trivial matters.
别拿你那些鸡毛蒜皮的事同我纠缠。 - The rectification will deal not with trivialities but with important issues, with the question of political line
又不是整那些鸡毛蒜皮，而是整大事，整路线问题。 - Too many films trivialize violence.
有许许多多影片把暴力行为描述成是鸡毛蒜皮的事. - She'll scrape up all the scrapings and load them on your head
她会搜出种种鸡毛蒜皮的事情来，统统都往你头上扣。