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

• 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。
• At the moment of such a feeling of love, enthusiasm, and self-sacrifice, what are all our slights and squabbles?
  在充满爱心、欣悦和为国王献身之感的时刻，我们之间发生的口角和屈辱具有什么意义呢？！
• 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。
• The union's campaign against the factory closure has been hampered by its internal squabbles about the action it should take.
  由于在应该采取什么行动的问题上发生了内讧，工会反对工厂关闭的运动受到了阻碍。
• With several families living in a siheyuan, minor squabbles are inevitable.
  几家住一个四合院儿，难免有些磕碰。
• This will only result in another round of time-consuming squabbles.
  这样只会带来另一轮浪费时间的争论。
• Mr Blair still benefits from a high international reputation, despite Iraq and despite squabbles within the European Union.
  布莱尔先生仍在他不错的国际声望中受益，伊拉克的不算，欧盟的也不算。
• I'm not interested in their petty squabbles.
  我对他们的小争执不感兴趣。
• 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。