Presumably, this redundancy reduces petty embezzlement and pilferage, albeit at staggering costs.

这种繁琐的手续大概是为了防止贪污和小偷小摸，却不管为此会付出多大的代价。

Did he gain his precarious bread by some petty trade, by menial toil, by violence, or by theft?

他究竟是在做小生意，当奴仆，还是靠打家劫舍来获得朝不保夕的口粮呢？

Her petty complaints really gripe me.

她唠叨的抱怨真的弄得我心烦。

The party split into petty factions.

该党分裂成若干小派系。

※It is not true suffering ennobles the character; happiness  does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.William Somerset Maugham, British novelist——说苦难能使人格得到升华，这是不确切的；幸福有时倒能做到这一点，而苦难常会使人心胸狭窄，产生复仇的心理。英国小说家  毛姆  W  

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