But if this is sort of piffling around the edges, we won't get there.

但是，如果这是边缘问题，我们就不会到达那里。

At one extraordinary moment, Callicles simply refuses to answer Socrates' endless and, for him, endlessly piffling questions.

在一个非同寻常的时刻， 卡里克勒斯干脆拒绝回答苏格拉底没完没了的问题，对他来说，这是没完没了的无聊问题。

Such exclamations (" Ho hum" , " Baloney" , " Piffle" ) often found their way into copy, both his own and other people's.

这些感叹词(“嗬哼”、“胡扯”、“胡扯”)他自己经常用，别人也模仿。