bagatelle
noun /ˌbæɡəˈtel/
/ˌbæɡəˈtel/
- [uncountable] a game played on a board with small balls that you try to hit into holes
小型台球 - [countable, usually singular] (literary) a small or unimportant thing or amount
琐事；无足轻重的事；微量 - It cost a mere bagatelle.
这个只花了一点钱。
- It cost a mere bagatelle.
词源mid 17th cent. (in sense (2)): from French, from Italian bagatella, perhaps from baga ‘baggage’ or from a diminutive of Latin baca ‘berry’. Sense (1) dates from the early 19th cent.