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bicker

/bik-er/US // ˈbɪk ər //UK // (ˈbɪkə) //

争吵,争论不休,争吵不休,斗嘴

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to engage in petulant or peevish argument; wrangle: The two were always bickering.
    • : to run rapidly; move quickly; rush; hurry: a stream bickering down the valley.
    • : to flicker; glitter: The sun bickered through the trees.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an angry, petty dispute or quarrel; contention.

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Examples

  • All we think old people do is bicker about how different you are.

  • Despite their sizeable difference in age (he 53, she 25), the two playfully bicker like, well, a couple in an Allen film.

  • They bicker and backstab and yell—and there is quite a bit of yelling.

  • And it must get us to root for survivors who often bicker or self-sabotage when we just want them to move forward.

  • The purpose of a campaign, after all, is to bicker about economic conditions and government actions.

  • And, for want of better measure, he seized lustily a bicker that lay near him, and dashed a quantity of the liquor into it.

  • They were cast in a quieter time and refuse to bicker on a paltry minute.

  • Kirsty and Jenny, two country lassies, were supping their "parritch" from the same bicker in the harvest-field one morning.

  • We grow old and wrinkled and sick; we bicker with those we love; it grows harder to remember, easier to forget.

  • There is a homely saying in Wiltshire that married people are made to bicker and breed.