small beer
英 [ˌsmɔːl ˈbɪə(r)]
美 [ˌsmɔːl ˈbɪr]
n. (相比较之下)无足轻重的人(或事物)
牛津词典
noun
- （相比较之下）无足轻重的人（或事物）
a person or thing that has no great importance or value, especially when compared with sb/sth else
柯林斯词典
- N-UNCOUNT 无关紧要的事情;琐事
If you say that something issmall beer, you mean that it is unimportant in comparison with something else.- Such roles are small beer compared with the fame she once enjoyed.
和她曾经享有的名气相比，这样的角色真的算不了什么。
- Such roles are small beer compared with the fame she once enjoyed.
英英释义
noun
- something of small importance
双语例句
- That grant was pretty small beer, we shall need a lot more money.
那个回报太少了，我们需要更多的钱。 - A small restaurant serving beer and wine as well as food; usually cheap.
供应给人们啤酒和葡萄酒以及食物的小店；通常价都比较便宜。 - Marketing Innovation Strategy for Small Beer Enterprises
中小啤酒企业营销创新的策略 - Don't listen to henry; he's small beer.
不要听亨利的，他没什么分量。 - People with some money drank "small beer" water mixed with enough beer to kill off some of those nasty micro-organisms.
有点钱的人喝“淡啤酒”水中搀上足够多的啤酒，以杀死部分肮脏微生物。 - Berlin, Macmillan said, seemed to him small beer compared to the destruction of humanity.
麦克米伦说，同人类的毁灭相比，柏林问题在他看来，只不过是微不足道的。 - Chinese beer industry started from Russian building a factory in China, then hundreds of large and small beer companies have built, and then Chinese beer industry went through many mergers and acquisitions, now the development of Chinese beer industry has experienced more than one hundred years.
中国的啤酒工业从最初的俄罗斯在中国建厂，到全国有大大小小上百家的啤酒企业，然后经历了一轮又一轮的并购整合，啤酒工业至今在中国的发展经历了100多年。 - The insurance premium is small beer compared to what we'd have to pay if the house burnt down.
同房子万一被烧后我们的损失相比，保险金是不足挂齿的。 - He thought he's wonderful, but he's really rather small beer.
他自以为了不起，其实算不了什麽。 - The actual demands set out in the document are small beer indeed.
文件中陈述的实际要求确实是无关紧要的。