Mutual pettiness can bring people together, too.

一些小的共同话题也能让人们走到一起。

For an employee to deny such a conference shows pettiness and resentment.

对于一名员工来说，拒绝参加这样的离职谈话是小气和怨恨的表现。

We're tough, we're wise, and we're way above this pettiness.

我们坚强睿智 并非空有好皮囊。

Admit that there was then less egotism and less pettiness.

承认那时没有那么多的自负和小气。

One Facebook user asked, " Why are we accepting this immaturity and pettiness to be the state of American politics? "

“为什么美国的政治进程非得用这种幼稚和卑鄙的手段进行？”

I thank God for that moment of happiness: for showing me my pettiness and my greatness.

我为那一刻的幸福感谢上帝：让我看到我的渺小和伟大。

I keep things moving in a Congress choked by pettiness and lassitude.

我负责在党间斗争的国会中 推动议案。

And can I get over the pettiness and overlook things and ease back a little bit?

我可以克服琐事而忽视事情并放松一点吗？

Overridden by military methods and bureaucratic pettiness, Prussia was only beginning to free her hands from internal bonds.

普鲁士被军事手段和官僚主义所压倒， 才刚刚开始摆脱内部束缚。

Let's resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.

党派之争、琐碎幼稚，长期以来这些东西荼毒了我们的政坛。