unimportant-petty

unable / incapable

uncertain / unsettled

understandable understanding

unimportant / petty / trifling

university / college

unkind / mean / nasty

unless / if...not

until / to / up to /
as far as

update / upgrade /
up-to-date /
up-to-the-minute

upside down /
inside out / backward

U.S.A. / U.S. / America / the States

usage / use

used to / would


	unimportant / petty / trifling

A.	unimportant 은 일반적인 단어로 중요하지 않은, 하찮은 의 의미이다.
1.	Leave out the unimportant details.
2.	The details of the story are unimportant.
3.	He left a comma out of the sentence, but that is an unimportant detail
4.	Employees' opinions were often treated as unimportant.

B.	petty는 작은 것에 너무나 많은 걱정을 하는 것을 암시하며 사소한, 대단찮은을 의미한다.
1.	These are petty concerns that can be taken care of later.
2.	His petty complaints annoy people.
3.	Don't let petty disturbances upset you.
4.	He wastes his time on petty problems that no one else cares about.
5.	Her petty complaints showed her to be selfish.
6.	Petty larceny is the stealing of a small thing or sum.
7.	We're spending too much time on petty issues.

C.	trifling은 주의를 기울일 필요가 없는 것을 암시하며 시시한을 의미한다.
1.	Please don't disturb your mother with such trifling matters.
2.	The friends treated their quarrel as only a trifling matter.
3.	One person offered a trifling amount to purchase our used television set.

Leave out the unimportant details.

Her petty complaints showed her to be selfish.

Please don't disturb your mother with such trifling matters.