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bickering

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

争吵,吵吵闹闹,争吵声,争吵不休

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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

  • Joy Woodhouse calls in to tell her bickering boys Brad and Dallas to “get this out of your system” before Christmas.

  • Such admiration for the American system sounds strange in this era of gridlock and bickering.

  • Chronic partisan bickering largely gave way to a rare moment of well-deserved self-congratulation.

  • The landings culminated years of debate, planning, construction, bickering, invention, training, deception of the enemy and more.

  • Leaders are constantly issuing contradictory orders and security commanders are bickering.

  • The bickering might have gone on the rest of the evening except that Barbara Sutton told them they were both being very foolish.

  • There was haggling and bickering until a price of sixty was agreed upon, and Mr. McCann's heart expanded with satisfaction.

  • There was nothing to distract him from the sordidness of the bickering household in George Street.

  • "I saw you as I was coming away from Kendrick's last night," he began, with a bickering rasp in his voice.

  • Einstein was the only thinker in a century gone mad from bickering.