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squabble

英 [ˈskwɒbl]

美 [ˈskwɑːbl]

v.  (为琐事)争吵,发生口角
n.  争吵,口角

复数:squabbles 现在分词:squabbling 过去式:squabbled 第三人称单数:squabbles 过去分词:squabbled 

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Collins.1 / BNC.18512 / COCA.17073

牛津词典

    verb

    • (为琐事)争吵,发生口角
      to argue noisily about sth that is not very important
      1. My sisters were squabbling over what to watch on TV.
        我的姐妹正为看哪个电视节目争吵。

    柯林斯词典

    • V-RECIP (为琐事)争吵,起争执
      When peoplesquabble, they quarrel about something that is not really important.
      1. Mother is devoted to Dad although they squabble all the time...
        母亲很爱父亲,尽管他们总是为琐事拌嘴。
      2. The children were squabbling over the remote-control gadget for the television...
        孩子们正在为抢夺电视机的遥控器而争吵。
      3. My four-year-old squabbles with his friends...
        我那个 4 岁大的孩子常和他的小伙伴们斗嘴。

    英英释义

    noun

    verb

    双语例句

    • I've never seen you in a domestic squabble before.
      我以前没见过你跟女人斗嘴。
    • My four-year-old squabbles with his friends
      我那个4岁大的孩子常和他的小伙伴们斗嘴。
    • Regulators have been cooling off the squabble since Sunday, assuring the anxious broth hawkers that their recipes need not be unveiled for public viewing, the China Daily said.
      《中国日报》报道说,监管机构自上周日开始便一直在平息这场争论,并向这些担心火锅底料配方揭露的老板们保证说,他们的配方不必向大众公开。
    • But the two bears continued to squabble.
      但这两位熊哥们继续争吵。
    • Why do some travelers squabble about overhead bin space? Or feud over an armrest?
      为什么有些旅客会为舱顶行李箱或扶手发生口角?
    • The performers squabble among themselves while they wait for their audience.
      这些表演者在等待观众时不断争吵。
    • Mother is devoted to Dad although they squabble all the time
      母亲很爱父亲,尽管他们总是为琐事拌嘴。
    • Most churches are riven by tensions: it is not so long ago that the Roman Catholic Opus Dei glared at liberation theologists, and Moscow's Orthodox still squabble like mad with Constantinople's.
      多数教堂因为无法承受压力而分裂开来:正当罗马天主教组织OpusDei怒视自由派神学家的时候,同样信奉东正教的莫斯科与君士坦丁堡之间却还在疯狂的争吵。
    • But these senators scheme and squabble and flatter and deceive.
      但那些议员们只会争吵算计阿谀奉承还有欺骗。
    • The second most common regret involved family issues, with 16 percent of respondents expressing regret about a family squabble or having been unkind to a sibling as a child.
      排在第二位的常见憾事则跟家人有关,16%的被访者对某段家庭纷争或小时候欺负了兄弟姐妹而表示后悔。