squabbles

英 [ˈskwɒblz]

美 [ˈskwɑːblz]

v.  (为琐事)争吵，发生口角
n.  争吵，口角
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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

• Clearly, family squabbles can be deeply damaging.
  显然，家庭纠纷可能造成巨大的破坏。
• A big reason the mayoral race has degenerated into squabbles over personal taxes and the shape of buses is that the candidates do not have much more to talk about.
  市长选举之所以恶化变成围绕个人税务和巴士形状这些小事的你争我吵，一个重要原因是两位候选者都没什么可值得谈论的。
• And there are squabbles over new shortcuts for shipping around the Siberian coast and the Northwest Passage.
  对于船只绕过西伯利亚海岸的新捷径以及西北通道都存在着争议。
• As Europe stands at the precipice, it is time to end brinkmanship and political squabbles.
  欧洲正站在悬崖边缘，现在是时候终结边缘政策和无休止的政治纷争了。
• Even now, the eurozone still squabbles over the small print of a package that is essentially irrelevant to its future.
  即便到了现在，欧元区仍在围绕一项与其未来基本上不相干的方案的细则部分争吵不休。
• So far, the tensions have not boiled over in public squabbles.
  迄今为止，这种紧张局势尚未在公开争吵中失控。
• Recent squabbles worried you, enough that you're in a rush to get things settled.
  最近的争论让你烦心，你为了让事情定下来已经足够奔忙了。
• Like Russia and the US, China sometimes seems frustrated with the squabbles and convoluted decision-making procedures that often constitute EU policymaking.
  与俄罗斯和美国相同，中国有时似乎也对欧盟决策过程中的争论和费解的程序感到失望。
• It would compound the control issues and there could be squabbles over carving up Cadbury's chocolate and chewing gum businesses.
  这其中将包括控制权问题，还可能会就如何瓜分吉百利的巧克力和口香糖业务发生争执。
• 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。