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 squabbling, will you? people will laugh at us.
  别吵了，让人家看笑话。
• 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。
• 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。
• It treats its relationship with the EU as a game of chess, with 27 opponents crowding the other side of the table and squabbling about which piece to move.
  它将与欧盟之间的关系视为一盘棋，而27个对手挤在桌子的另一边，争吵着该动哪个棋子。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The meeting degenerated into petty squabbling.
  会议变成了无聊的扯皮。
• 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。
• 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！