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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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

• a quarrel about petty points
  Synonym:bickerbickeringspattiffpettifoggeryfuss

verb

• argue over petty things
  1. Let's not quibble over pennies
  Synonym:quibblenigglepettifogbickerbrabble

双语例句

• Babbitt did not often squabble with his employees.
  巴比特不常和雇员争吵。
• Of course, in the beginning, shares in any enterprise have just hope value, so it can seem petty to squabble too much.
  当然，在一开始，所有企业的股票都只具有期望价值，这时为了股权大吵大闹或许会显得小肚鸡肠。
• Abandoning their sacred charge to safeguard the three Soulstones, the disparate Mage Clans began to squabble amongst each other over petty differences.
  他们放弃了守护三颗灵魂之石的神圣职责，不同的法师宗派开始为了细微的分歧而相互争吵。
• 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 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。
• Don't squabble over trifles.
  不要为一点小事就吵起来。
• Don't interfere in their squabble& let them fight it out among themselves.
  不要干预他们的争吵&让他们争个水落石出。
• The question always came down to, are these fiduciary numbers that investment managers charged with keeping money for widows and orphans rely on, or are they just inside baseball for the industry to squabble over and not all that important? That question has never been answered.
  问题最终归结为，这些预测数据到底是那些为孤儿寡母理财的投资经理们进行投资决策的依据，还是只是行业内部自说自话的产物，根本无足轻重？这个问题一直没有答案。
• Members of the management staff at the shopping center approached and asked them to leave, setting off a squabble that soon turned into a vigorous debate between the staff members and bystanders defending the artists.
  购物中心的管理人员走上前来，叫他们离开，引起了一场口角，并很快演变成了一场管理人员和支持这两位艺术家的旁观者之间的激辩。
• While the transatlantic squabble over the main thrust of the G20 summit continued, the heads of international organisations bemoaned the slow progress on cleaning up bank balance sheets, something they see as a pre-requisite for any recovery.
  在美欧在G20峰会主要议题上继续争吵之际，国际组织的领导人对清理银行资产负债表的缓慢进程表示了遗憾，他们认为这种清理是任何复苏的前提。