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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The meeting degenerated into petty squabbling.
  会议变成了无聊的扯皮。
• 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。
• Once upon a time there were a brother and sister squabbling over an apple, with each insisting on the larger slice.
  从前有一对兄妹为一只苹果争吵，两人都想吃大的一块。
• 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。
• 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？”