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

• 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。
• Once upon a time there were a brother and sister squabbling over an apple, with each insisting on the larger slice.
  从前有一对兄妹为一只苹果争吵，两人都想吃大的一块。
• 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。
• Stop squabbling, will you? people will laugh at us.
  别吵了，让人家看笑话。
• 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。
• In the1990s, squabbling over the siting of an ethylene plant financed by the central government led to the project being split between Beijing and Tianjin.
  在上个世纪90年代，一个乙烯工程的选址究竟是定在北京还是天津，争论不休。
• 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。
• Squabbling like this won't get anywhere.
  这样瞎吵下去不会有什么结果。
• 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。
• 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。