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

• The meeting degenerated into petty squabbling.
  会议变成了无聊的扯皮。
• Stop squabbling, will you? people will laugh at us.
  别吵了，让人家看笑话。
• Crucially, eurozone governments must stop squabbling.
  至关重要的是，欧元区各国政府必须停止争吵。
• You are so concerned with squabbling for the scraps from longshanks'table that you've missed your god-given right to something better. There's difference between us*.
  正当你对别人的残羹剩饭欣然自喜甚至还需你争我抢时，恰恰放弃了上帝赋予的本应该就属于我们的更好的东西。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 kids, as usual, were squabbling in the back of the car.
  和往常样，孩子们在汽车后座争吵着。
• 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。
• HP ( HPQ) board members were so worn out from boardroom squabbling that they never even met CEO Leo apotheker before they hired him.
  惠普公司（HP）董事会成员因为在会议室里老是争执不休而精疲力竭，结果他们在聘用首席执行官李艾科之前居然都从来没跟他碰过头。