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

• 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。
• Squabbling like this won't get anywhere.
  这样瞎吵下去不会有什么结果。
• 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。
• Tom keeps squabbling with his sister about who is going to use the bicycle.
  汤姆跟妹妹都争着要骑那辆自行车。
• Stop squabbling, will you? people will laugh at us.
  别吵了，让人家看笑话。
• 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！
• Squabbling by rival politicians in Athens threatens to escalate the European debt crisis, with grave consequences for Greece, the European Union and the world economy as a whole.
  雅典的政客们争论不休，有可能使欧洲债务危机升级，对希腊、欧盟（EU）乃至世界经济整体产生严重后果。
• 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。
• The experts, however, say such squabbling is healthy, even if we are catching up very late in the day.
  不过，专家指出，这类争论是有益的，就算我们很晚才开始。
• 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。