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

• One day I was criticizing my children for squabbling. "Can you never play peacefully?"
  有一次，我因为孩子们的争吵而责骂他们，“你们就永远不能安静地玩会吗？”
• 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。
• 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。
• Mr Dumas was anxious to float Herm è s because some family members wanted to liquidate their holdings and a listing would avoid them squabbling over the value of their shares.
  杜迈急于让爱马仕上市，因为一些家族成员希望将所持股份变现，而上市可以防止他们就股票价值发生争吵。
• 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。
• Stop all this squabbling, which is most undignified.
  不要吵来吵去，有失君子风度。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• They are always squabbling over details.
  他们总为枝节问题而争吵不休。