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

• Petty internal squabbles are doing nothing to help the party's image.
  内部的龃龆对党的形象没有好处。
• 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。
• 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。
• A stand-off between the two biggest greenhouse gas emitters has blocked years of effort to produce a meaningful international climate treaty, along with squabbles over the level of aid from developed countries deemed most responsible for global warming.
  两大温室气体排放国的对峙，再加上围绕发达国家援助水平的争吵发达国家被视为全球变暖的罪魁祸首阻碍了签署有意义的国际气候协定的多年努力。
• 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。
• She might have called a few former friends to apologize, and mend fences for past squabbles.
  她可能还会给几位昔日朋友打电话主动道歉，摒弃前嫌。
• 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。
• Will the Mediterranean union seize the moment, or will it be strangled by southern politics and European squabbles?
  地中海国家能否抓住这个时机，或是否会被南地中海政治分歧和欧洲的争吵所扼杀？
• The press was almost unaware of these squabbles.
  报界基本上还未觉察到这些争吵。
• 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。