small-minded

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Britten, according to the prevalent view, was a small-minded, provincial music maker, concerned chiefly with his own advancement.
按照世人通常的看法，布里顿是个心胸狭窄、短见薄识的音乐匠人，只关心自己的远大前程。
It would be miraculous if the army's intervention shocked the country's battling small-minded politicians into a new and urgent policy of building dykes and embankments against the rising seas.
如果军队的干预震动了迷于混战、眼光狭小的政客，使他们转而致力于制订紧迫的新政策，建筑堤坝和河岸，抵御不断上升的海水，那可真是一个奇迹。
But small-minded people belittle what they don't understand.
但是眼光狭窄的人总是贬低他们不理解的事物。

Also on the level of taste and tone, the books seemed to some readers—for example, Hitchings—provincial and small-minded.
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If you say that someone is small-minded, you are critical of them because they have fixed opinions and are unwilling to change them or to think about more general subjects.