(比喻微不足道的技能) insignificant skill; literary skill of no high order; small trick; the trifling skill of a scribe; the work of a dabbler in the art, clever with his hands; the work of a man with a turn for manual skill -- nothing accomplished to speak of
Example Sentences:
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The "pure" scientist often assumes that the application of knowledge is mundane . 有些从事于“纯理论”学科的科学家常常傲慢地把应用科学问题贬低为世俗的雕虫小技。
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I like to refer to it as a bag of tricks 我认为应该把它当成是雕虫小技。
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Is that all you ' ve got 就这点雕虫小技？
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He hit the landing on the other side neatly , for this was a familiar bit of work to him 他很娴熟地就靠上了岸，这对他来说只是雕虫小技而已。
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He throws the little casting net of his intellectual skills into the vast ocean of the universe 他将智力上雕虫小技的小网撒向宇宙广浩的海洋。
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Entertainment from skills is originally an key subject for the confucians to develop their character and moral but is looked down upon by zhuang zi , the representative of taoism 摘要游艺本是儒者历练性情与德业的重要科目，却被道家庄子视为“雕虫小技” 。
