footling

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Congress's response to recent bribery scandals has been to impose footling restrictions on lobbyists.
國會對於近期行賄醜聞的廻應是給說客強加了瑣細的限制條款。
“REVOLUTION” is an overused word; the latest footling change often hyped into the biggest revolution since the last one.
時下“革命”是個爛詞，任何最新的無用的變化經常誇張的稱之爲上一次革命以來最大的革命。
Unless the economy starts to recover powerfully enough to cut America’s high unemployment levels, this modest set of policies will seem footling.
除非經濟強勁反彈的力度大到能將美國的高失業率降下來，不然這種動作不大的政策將作用有限。

This footling stuff is only of any interest because it is about the queen.
ECONOMIST: Why the queen has to be seen to be believed
Treasury traditionalists may regard these apparently footling changes as a shocking breach of time-honoured tradition.
ECONOMIST: Taxation
Georgia is a clannish country in which doing favours for friends is regarded as a moral obligation—far more so than obeying footling little rules.
ECONOMIST: Edward Shevardnadze, Georgia’s foxy president