ADJ If you say that someone is small-minded, you are critical of them because they have fixed opinions and are unwilling to change them or to think about more general subjects. 顽固不化的; 思想狭隘的 [表不满]
...their small-minded preoccupation with making money.
...他们鼠目寸光,一心只想赚钱。
Small-minded officials, rude waiters, and ill-mannered taxi drivers are hardly unknown in the US.
在美国,心胸狭窄的官员、粗鲁的传者和没有礼貌的出租车司机也并不少见。
Britten, according to the prevalent view, was a small-minded, provincial music maker, concerned chiefly with his own advancement.
按照世人通常的看法,布里顿是个心胸狭窄、短见薄识的音乐匠人,只关心自己的远大前程。
If we want to fall in love with our lives—and by this I don't mean the "we" of our small-minded egos—we must work diligently to manifest our larger selves in our daily lives.
如果我们想要爱上自己的生命(不是指我们小小的自尊),那么我们应该更努力地在日常生活中显露出“大我”。
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