• n. （由鼴鼠打洞扒出的泥土堆成的）鼴鼠丘；瑣事；無意義的事；小困難（或障礙）

mole,鼴鼠，hill,小山。比喻用法。

molehill (n.)

also mole-hill, mid-15c., from mole (n.2) + hill (n.).

To much amplifying thinges yt. be but small, makyng mountaines of Molehils. [John Foxe, "Acts and Monuments," 1570]

1. The British press, making a mountain out of a molehill, precipitated an unnecessary economic crisis.

英國報界小題大做，釀成了一場不必要的經濟危機。

來自柯林斯例句

2. She was only five minutes late, but he made a mountain out of a molehill about it.

她只不過遲到了五分鐘, 但他卻因此而大做文章.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.

讓自由的回聲響徹密西西比州的每一座大山小丘吧!

來自演講部分

4. Don't make a mountain out of a molehill.

你不要小題大作了.

來自辭典例句

5. An old, close - bitten pasture, with a footpath wandering across it and a molehill here and there.

這古老的牧場荒草參差, 一條曲曲彎彎的小徑,一片鼴鼠拱起的土丘.

來自英漢文學