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

• Stop all this squabbling, which is most undignified.
  不要吵来吵去，有失君子风度。
• Russia is more than vodka, cold temperatures, pussy riot, anti-gay legislation, squabbling oligarchs, and the occasional jailing of a prominent opponent to its president.
  俄罗斯不光有伏特加、寒冷的气候、朋克乐队PussyRiot、反同性恋法、为点儿小事就喋喋不休的政治寡头以及偶尔会入狱的总统主要政治对手。
• Mr Dumas was anxious to float Herm è s because some family members wanted to liquidate their holdings and a listing would avoid them squabbling over the value of their shares.
  杜迈急于让爱马仕上市，因为一些家族成员希望将所持股份变现，而上市可以防止他们就股票价值发生争吵。
• You are so concerned with squabbling for the scraps from longshanks'table that you've missed your god-given right to something better. There's difference between us*.
  正当你对别人的残羹剩饭欣然自喜甚至还需你争我抢时，恰恰放弃了上帝赋予的本应该就属于我们的更好的东西。
• 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。
• This monument to vanity was built by a wealthy count but he died before the ambitious building could be finished, which shows the folly of squabbling with your architects.
  这座空虚的纪念碑由一位富有的公爵建造，但在这座雄心勃勃的建筑物竣工之前，他就死了，这座建筑物提示了与建筑师争论的荒唐事。
• 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。
• Mark: You two are already squabbling like an old married couple.
  马克：你们两个已经像老夫老妻一样斗嘴了。
• Crucially, eurozone governments must stop squabbling.
  至关重要的是，欧元区各国政府必须停止争吵。
• 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。