adj paying too much attention to things such as social position, money, and possessions - used to show disapproval belonging to the group of lower middle class people >petty bourgeoisn[C]
1. The writer often obfuscates the real issues with petty details. 那作家常以细枝末节来混淆实质问题.
2. He established a bourgeois republic. 他创立了一个资产阶级共和国。
3. He established a bourgeois republic. 他创立了一个资产阶级共和国。
4. Don´t bother me with such petty things. 不要用这种小事情烦我。
5. And so she let herself be married to a petty clerk in the Ministry of Education. 于是她不得不降身以求,嫁给了教育部的一个小职员。
6. A. Yes, a rather sentimental girl fed up with bourgeois society but not knowing what to do about it. A. 记得,她是一个多愁善感、对资本主义社会感到厌倦,但又不知如何是好的女孩儿。