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
- 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。 - In Germany at the end, most passengers traveling brings back a little souvenir, big music equipment, optical instrument is small, beer, T-shirt.
在德国旅行结束时，旅客大多会带回一点纪念品，大则音乐器材、光学仪器，小则啤酒杯、T恤衫。 - Marketing Innovation Strategy for Small Beer Enterprises
中小啤酒企业营销创新的策略 - Barclays 'commodity positions were no doubt small beer.
巴克莱的大宗商品头寸无疑只是小菜一碟。 - His father owns a great deal of property but he is still small beer compared to some of the directors of his company.
他父亲拥有很多财产，但和公司有些董事相比仍然是微不足道的。 - Ever since he won in the competition, John has thought on small beer of himself.
自竞赛中获胜以来，约翰便自命不凡起来了。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。