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

• The press was almost unaware of these squabbles.
  报界基本上还未觉察到这些争吵。
• 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。
• Your irritability will lead to family squabbles.
  你的烦躁会引发家庭矛盾。
• Falling budget revenues as a result of the crisis have already sparked discord among factions and may yet embroil the president and prime minister in squabbles over the shrinking economic pie.
  危机而导致的预算收入下降已引发了各派之间的不合，可能还使总统和总理就日益缩小的经济蛋糕卷入争吵。
• John often squabbles with his brother about trivial.
  约翰时常为了琐细的事跟他的兄弟斗嘴。
• It makes your petty earthly squabbles seem so insignificant, as there is far more to life than you realise.
  它使你的小属地争吵似乎微不足道，因为有更多的远远比你的生命实现。
• 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。
• 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。
• And while America squabbles, crumbles and move backwards, China laughs all the way to the bank!
  当美国争吵不休，相互倾扎，倒踏步子时，中国正大笑着奔向银行。
• 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。