These problems were pinpricks compared with what was to come.
这些问题和即将到来的事相比只是小烦恼。
Examples from the Corpus
pinprick• Yet nausea and bone-weariness were merepinprickscompared to the emotionalupheaval she was going through.• More pinpricks of light were moving down there.• Neurological examination showed reduced pinpricksensation in both feet.• Though we may momentarily feel warmth, discomfort or shame, our emotions are rarely more than pinpricks.• And above, the pinpricks of light wheeling on.• Why the pinprick on the left arm?• A thousand pinpricks of scaldingsteam grew to knife-points and the knivestwisted.• The river was alive with pinpricks of light.