batrachomyomachian

形容词 adj.
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英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Petty (chiefly of a quarrel). rare
    — ...sounded throughout to my own ears as a Batrachomyomachian battle between the croaks and the squeaks...

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词源

From Batrachomyomachia (Ancient Greek βάτραχος, frog, μῦς, mouse, and μάχη, battle), a comic epic parodying the Iliad in which a diving frog accidentally drowns a mouse riding on his back, prompting a war between the species.
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