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squabbling

/skwob-uhl/US // ˈskwɒb əl //UK // (ˈskwɒbəl) //

争吵,吵吵闹闹,拌嘴,争吵不休

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    squab·bled, squab·bling.

    • : to engage in a petty quarrel.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    squab·bled, squab·bling.

    • : Printing. to disarrange and mix.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a petty quarrel.

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Examples

  • The rest of the family sometimes balked at their squabbles, which Farr said drove their relatives “justifiably nuts.”

  • Shaver’s songs evoked dusty back roads, rural isolation, bar fights, knock-down drag-out marital squabbles and money lost at poker games, as well as the near-destitution of his youth and his own lofty ambitions.

  • “The meeting devolved into a partisan squabble,” The Post’s Greg Miller, Ellen Nakashima and Adam Entous reported the following year.

  • Bees did, we presume, during a biochemical squabble with viruses in a damp corner of their shared history.

  • The squabble eventually devolved into a barely choreographed slapstick fight where Colbert, O’Brien, and Jon Stewart seemed to be locked in a battle for the ages.

  • The squabble was also immortalized in this incredibly awkward family portrait.

  • At the time, the renamed corner caused a slight international squabble and demands for its removal.

  • The crowd that accumulated to watch the squabble reportedly applauded and cheered as Bieber fled the scene.

  • But this scholarly squabble quickly grew ugly with the discovery of Kennewick Man in 1996.

  • Refaeli got involved in the squabble herself with a pair of near-identical tweets written in Hebrew.

  • We fix it up and agree to try over ag'in, and then, fust thing we know, we're right into the middle of another squabble.

  • The principle would be valuable in many a squabble of corporate employer and hosts of servants in the modern time.

  • Twice the big steamer stopped her engines and drifted until the squabble ahead of her seemed to have been settled.

  • Fult Cawsler hes done moved hyar from over on Squabble Creek, an' opened a resteraw.

  • The hogs evidently thought it feed time, for they rushed forward and began to squabble over the voided matter.