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225 months ago

JENN64  See profile asked this question:

Language pair:

English > Spanish

Subject:

Other

Level of diffculty:

Easy / medium

Word or term in question:

whether America is Ready for P

Context:

won’t squarely face the questi

Keywords:

-

 

 

The answer of   See profile was rated best

si America está preparada para las cosas pequeñas

My comment:

El diccionario Webster's así define "petty":

petty (pete) -tier, -tiest
adj.
1 relatively worthless or unimportant; trivial; insignificant
2 small-scale; minor
3 a) having or showing a tendency to make much of small matters b) small-minded; mean, narrow, ungenerous, etc.
4 relatively low in rank; subordinate
pettily
adv.
pettiness
n.

Etymology
[ME pety < OFr petit < *pit-, little < baby talk]

(C)1995 Zane Publishing, Inc. (C)1994, 1991, 1988 Simon & Schuster, Inc.

The asker's comment:

Thanks again