squabbling

英 [ˈskwɒblɪŋ]

美 [ˈskwɑːblɪŋ]

v.  (为琐事)争吵，发生口角
squabble的现在分词

现在分词：squabbling　复数：squabblings　

BNC.35032 / COCA.27806

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。

双语例句

• When the mother could bear the children's squabbling no longer, she grabbed them both by the hair and knocked their heads together.
  母亲再也不能忍受孩子的争吵时，就抓住他俩的头发碰撞他们的头。
• The death knell comes in the form of squabbling among a horde of family shareholders.
  丧钟以一大群家族股东争吵的形式敲响。
• The meeting degenerated into petty squabbling.
  会议变成了无聊的扯皮。
• 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。
• I'm sick of you two squabbling just cut it out!
  你们两个吵来吵去真烦人&快打住吧！
• Which is why, despite whatever bickering has kept us squabbling in the past.
  那就是为什么，无论过去我们如何不停地发生口角。
• They are always squabbling over details.
  他们总为枝节问题而争吵不休。
• The kids, as usual, were squabbling in the back of the car.
  和往常样，孩子们在汽车后座争吵着。
• It is a sobering thought that so much depends on the leadership of squabbling European politicians who still consistently underestimate what confronts them.
  必须清醒地认识到过分依赖争吵不休的欧洲领导人是不明智的，他们一直低估了所面临的危机。
• Squabbling by rival politicians in Athens threatens to escalate the European debt crisis, with grave consequences for Greece, the European Union and the world economy as a whole.
  雅典的政客们争论不休，有可能使欧洲债务危机升级，对希腊、欧盟（EU）乃至世界经济整体产生严重后果。