niggle
pronunciation
UK [ˈnɪgl]
US [ˈnɪɡəl]
Word Origin
niggle 使烦恼，使焦虑
来自挪威方言nigla,忙于琐事的，瞎忙的，词源同niggard，-le,表反复。引申词义使烦恼，使焦虑。
Example
- 1. I just have one small niggle about this book .
- 对这本书我只有一点小小的意见。
- 2. I don 't see why they should niggle over paying a few pounds into the fund . They 're rich enough .
- 我不理解他们为什么对给这笔资金支付几个英镑的小事大动脑筋，他够富的了。
- 3. What started as a niggle in an arcane corner of the us mortgage market has escalated into what looks ever more like a global liquidity and credit crunch .
- 起初出现在美国抵押贷款市场神秘角落里不起眼的小事，如今已经升级，越来越像是一场全球流动性和信贷危机。
- 4. A woman 's contamination is not how she is vanity or corruption , how she is niggle , but is that how she is immoral .
- 一个女人的堕落不在于她有多么虚荣虚伪，也不在于她有多么小气难缠，而在于她有多么不守妇道。
- 5. The first niggle is that most workers lost their state-provided health care and education almost a decade ago .
- 首先是十几年前的国有企业改革使得大都数工人丧失了国家提供的医疗和教育。
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