A team of officers is trawling through the records of thousands of petty thieves.
一队警察正在数千名小偷的记录中搜索。
The accountant said that we could use petty cash to buy paper but not to buy a new printer.
会计说我们可以用零用现金去买纸，但是不能用它买一个新的打印机。
The thinking of your "petty" staff goes something like this: if management can't even fork out for a few grammas of fat and sugar per person per week, then it evidently doesn't care the staff.
你那些“小气”的员工是这样想的：如果管理层连掏钱购买每周每人几克的脂肪和糖都不情愿，那么它显然就不在乎员工。
So instead of responding to a saber-tooth tiger lurking behind a tree, the body reacts to petty annoyances like getting caught in traffic, being reprimanded by a supervisor, or worrying about bills.
（现在的）身体不是对隐藏在树背后龇牙咧嘴的老虎，而是对琐碎厌烦的事作出反应。
Baird urged him not to waste his intellect on petty state politics but to join the University of Chicago law faculty as a full professor.
Baird劝他不要把自己的才能浪费在琐碎的州政中，他应该加入芝加哥大学法律系成为一名全职教授。
They also give bankers a way to size up borrowers: those who struggle to separate petty cash from capital might not be ready for the big time.
而这也是银行家估计借贷者情况的一个方式：那些努力将资金分成小额现款的借贷者也许并没准备大干一番。
He constructed theories to explain the petty cruelties of childhood bullies. He made plans to purchase a small house, to reclaim his land in Guatemala, to publish essays, fiction, fragments of prose.
他得出几条理论用以解释在童年时欺凌弱小这微不足道的残忍，回忆年轻时计划在危地马拉买一栋房子，开垦一片土地，出版评论集、小说和散文集。
In a world preoccupied with consumerism and petty self-interest, that gives life dignity.
在一个消费主义和委琐私利充斥的世界里，道德感给生活以尊严。
And like the Petty Girl, the Monroe is for the millions a figure of fantasy rather than of flesh.
并且如同培地女孩一般，梦露在百万人面前是一个梦幻偶像而不是色相。
It was more like a holiday spree as the result of discovering the schoolmaster Life with his cane to be a myth, and thereby being able to shake myself free from the petty rules of his school.
它更像是一种假日的狂欢，因为我发现，手执笞杖的老师只是一个虚构的人物，因而就从这种微不足道的校规中解脱出来了。
Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.
贫穷会引起恐惧、压力，有时候甚至是沮丧。这意味着小心眼、卑微和很多艰难困苦。
Sacking him now gives the Republicans a golden opportunity to say that Mr Obama is taking petty revenge against a dedicated warrior guilty only of too much candour and a want of tact.
现在解雇他无疑给了共和党一个黄金话柄：共和党会认为奥巴马在报复一位鞠躬尽瘁，若说有罪也只因太坦白和不谨慎的军人。
A break in the investigation came when a petty thief testified that he had overheard the Crowninshield brothers plotting the crime in a gambling house.
谋杀调查取得了突破，一个惯偷证实，他曾在一家赌场无意间听到克劳宁希尔德兄弟在密谋作案。
Walter Bagehot, a 19th-century editor of the Economist, argued that people like to see a "family on the throne" because it "brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life".
19世纪的经济学家沃尔特·白芝霍特，曾提出人们乐于见到“王座上的家庭”因为它将把君主的荣耀降低到一般家庭的程度。
"When a man becomes grumpy or irritable, it's easy to blame work or simply the effects of aging," says Petty.
佩蒂说：“当男人变得暴躁或易怒时，我们往往把原因归咎于工作或仅仅是年龄大了。”
It was a place of open doors, of the one strange family about whom everyone gossiped, and of petty hierarchies and loyalties; a place both smug and safe.
小城家家不须设防，也有一个受谣言包围的奇怪家庭，有等级的分化，也有等级的归属感；总而言之，是一个虽然自负但却安全的地方。
Remember the frustrations of a Tunisian fruit seller trying to make a living without licenses, with constant fights over location, constant petty officials harassing him?
记得突尼斯的那个水果商贩吗？ 他没有营业执照，但必须养家糊口，屡次因为摆摊地点惹上麻烦，总是受到底层官员的骚扰。
Despite a two-year lapse in communication due to a conflict, the earthquake was a wake-up call, on the urgency to reconcile, to express his deep care and concern despite a petty grudge.
因为一个口角，他们已两年疏于交流，而此时的地震迫使他妥协并忽视那微不足道的踌躇，向女孩表达深切的关爱。
If ever there was a moment for Pakistani politicians to look up from their own petty rivalries, it is now, as the receding floodwaters reveal a poor, crowded and ruined country.
此时，正是巴基斯坦政客们需要将他们的目光从对手身上移开的时刻，他们应该关注更重要的问题，因为洪水褪去时展现出的是一个贫穷、拥挤、被摧毁的国家。
The protracted and petty legal combat I had just suffered through was a case that should have been settled but for bad blood in a family relationship.
我刚从一个家庭关系不和的案子里挣脱出来，一个耗时的无足轻重的法律纠纷。
Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.
生活是狭隘的，直到坚强的理念拓展它的界限。
Three days later, I was jogging down the street, my mind swimming with petty worries, when a splash of bright orange caught my eyes.
三天后，我在街上跑步，脑子里想着几件扰人的小事，昏昏沉沉的。
The student who posted the message claims that he and his girlfriend brawl over petty things from time to time, leading to a bad mood and skipping of classes.
发帖者称，他和女友常因小事吵架导致心情非常不好，课也好几天没上了。
The student who posted the message claims that he and his girlfriend brawl over petty things from time to time, leading to a bad mood and skipping of classes.
发帖者称，他和女友常因小事吵架导致心情非常不好，课也好几天没上了。
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