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

• 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。
• The meeting degenerated into petty squabbling.
  会议变成了无聊的扯皮。
• History suggests that technocrats do best when blitzing the mess made by incompetent and squabbling politicians.
  历史建议技术官僚做的最好的是快速收拾无能和争吵的政治家的烂摊子。
• Stop all this squabbling, which is most undignified.
  不要吵来吵去，有失君子风度。
• 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。
• It treats its relationship with the EU as a game of chess, with 27 opponents crowding the other side of the table and squabbling about which piece to move.
  它将与欧盟之间的关系视为一盘棋，而27个对手挤在桌子的另一边，争吵着该动哪个棋子。
• 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。
• The warning comes as the United States, China, European and other nations continue squabbling over the value of currencies.
  世界银行和IMF发出警告之时，美国，中国，欧洲和其他国家仍然因货币问题发生争吵。