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trivium

/triv-ee-uhm/US // ˈtrɪv i əm //UK // (ˈtrɪvɪəm) //

琐事,琐碎,小学,小事一桩

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the lower division of the seven liberal arts, comprising grammar, rhetoric, and logic.

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Examples

  • Just about everyone has played trivia at some point in life.

  • She sprinkles in bits of trivia about the Arctic’s long days as an electronic track by Kina Beats plays in the background.

  • Starting with Week 739 in 2007, it lists some 20 contests looking for fake trivia on movies, politicians, medicine, cars, fashion, animals et cetera et cetera et cetera.

  • Instead, Spotify here runs the “Behind the Lyrics” feature provided in partnership with Genius, which offers a combination of lyrics and trivia about the song being played.

  • In a world full of uncertainty and chaos, there is calm in simple trivia and facts.

  • These subjects were the Trivium, and the more advanced Quadrivium.

  • The Trivium was the real basis of the secular education of the period.

  • The trivium was the most popular course; such knowledge was considered an absolute necessity for any one making claim to culture.

  • After completing the trivium, those who wished for higher culture studied the quadrivium.

  • Among the old Romans, a trivium meant a place where three ways met, and a quadrivium where four, or what we now call a cross-road.