雕虫小技 meaning in English
(比喻微不足道的技能) insignificant skill; literary skill of no high order; small trick; the trifling skill of a scribe; the work of a dabbler in the art, clever with his hands; the work of a man with a turn for manual skill -- nothing accomplished to speak of
Examples
- The "pure" scientist often assumes that the application of knowledge is mundane .
有些从事于“纯理论”学科的科学家常常傲慢地把应用科学问题贬低为世俗的雕虫小技。 - I like to refer to it as a bag of tricks
我认为应该把它当成是雕虫小技。 - Is that all you ' ve got
就这点雕虫小技？ - He hit the landing on the other side neatly , for this was a familiar bit of work to him
他很娴熟地就靠上了岸，这对他来说只是雕虫小技而已。 - He throws the little casting net of his intellectual skills into the vast ocean of the universe
他将智力上雕虫小技的小网撒向宇宙广浩的海洋。