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

• 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。
• Instead, its dozens of sovereign mini-states squabble and fight constantly.
  组成瑞士的十几个拥有主权的州彼此之间争吵不断，斗争不休。
• Me and the wife are just having a little squabble.
  我和我妻子小吵架而已。
• 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。
• This is a squabble for the soul of the little country where I grew up.
  在我成长于斯的小国荷兰，正上演着一场关于灵魂的论战。
• 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。
• Most churches are riven by tensions: it is not so long ago that the Roman Catholic Opus Dei glared at liberation theologists, and Moscow's Orthodox still squabble like mad with Constantinople's.
  多数教堂因为无法承受压力而分裂开来：正当罗马天主教组织OpusDei怒视自由派神学家的时候，同样信奉东正教的莫斯科与君士坦丁堡之间却还在疯狂的争吵。
• 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。
• 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。
• Don't squabble over trifles.
  不要为一点小事就吵起来。