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altercation

/awl-ter-key-shuhn/US // ˌɔl tərˈkeɪ ʃən //UK // (ˌɔːltəˈkeɪʃən) //

争吵,争执,争吵声,争论

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a heated or angry dispute; noisy argument or controversy.

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Examples

  • We knew we would have large crowds, the potential for some violent altercations.

  • The switch-up came in the wake of Federline filing a police report over an alleged physical altercation between Jamie and Britney’s then-13-year-old son Sean Preston Federline.

  • Written, coproduced, directed by, and starring Jon Favreau, Chef follows a head chef in Los Angeles who up and quits his job amid frustration with a domineering restaurateur and after an altercation with a food critic.

  • As I remember, Gerace had suffered some altercation with the senior members of the department.

  • Investigators said the pair had an earlier altercation and Guzman returned to the station with a handgun.

  • Then, just last week, Ohio police accused a former SEAL of lying about being shot by three black men after a verbal altercation.

  • The only thing that both sides agree on is that an altercation ensued, and Brown was shot multiple times.

  • The Paris Hilton peace settlement circles us back to the Cipriani Ibiza altercation.

  • His lawyer would later blame "very minor physical altercation."

  • Her part in the altercation is riveting: at one point, she delicately moves her dress train out of the way.

  • She received her guest's protest with the utmost hauteur, and when we left the altercation was still in progress.

  • I will have no altercation; I must go back to Margaret, since no one else has the slightest consideration for her.

  • "That is false," cried Brydges; and a stormy altercation followed.

  • Mrs. Martha Trapbois had dwelt too long in Alsatia, to be either surprised or terrified at the altercation she had witnessed.

  • He saw them and engaged in altercation with them, which gave me the opening I sought.