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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 piffling
 (a.)瑣碎的,不足道的

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Pif·fle v. i.  [imp. & p. p. Piffled p. pr. & vb. n. Piffling ] To be sequeamish or delicate; hence, to act or talk triflingly or ineffectively; to talk nonsense or about trivial matters; to twaddle; piddle. [Dial. or Slang]
 Syn: -- chatter, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble.

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 piffling
      adj : (informal terms) small and of little importance; "a fiddling
            sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are
            lilliputian compared with those of countries that are
            at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "Mickey Mouse
            regulations"; "a dispute over niggling details";
            "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts";
            "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the
            law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction" [syn: fiddling,
             footling, lilliputian, little, Mickey Mouse, niggling,
             piddling, petty, picayune, trivial]