| 词汇 | squabble |
| 释义 | squabble noun[ C ] uk /ˈskwɒb.əl/ us /ˈskwɑː.bəl/ an argument over something that is not important: 口角;（为琐事的）争吵 Polly and Susie were having a squabble about who was going to hold the dog's lead.波莉和苏茜在为谁来牵狗而争吵。 Often relationships between family members are so strained that squabbles break out. Synonyms spat tiffinformal an argument argumentI don't want to get into an argument with you about this. disagreementThere was a disagreement over who should pay the bill. quarrelThere were bitter quarrels between the two neighbours. rowUKMy parents had a row about money. squabbleI'm always dealing with squabbles between the children. tiffShe had a tiff with her boyfriend last night. There is any easy way to end their family squabble. Parents often try to avoid squabbles by playing games with their children. He settles the squabble over the word game by disqualifying the word "jader". Arguments & disagreements argument argy-bargy be (on) non-speakersidiom belligerence bickering blow (someone/something) up bust up clash conflict contentiousness ding-dong dispute dust-up hostility kerfuffle logjam misunderstanding rhubarb ructions spat squabble verb[ I ] uk /ˈskwɒb.əl/ us /ˈskwɑː.bəl/ to argue over something that is not important: When small children are tired they are more likely to squabble with each other. They are still squabbling over who will get the big office. to argue with someone argueThe kids are always arguing about something. have an argumentI had an argument with my sister. fightThe two sides continue to fight over control of the assembly. quarrelStop quarrelling, you two! rowUKMy parents were always rowing about money. squabbleThey are still squabbling over who will get the big office. The children have been squabbling all morning. The couple spent most of their time squabbling among themselves. They are squabbling about how to use the money. Arguing & disagreeing agent provocateur alienate alienated argue with someone argumentatively bone conflict flame hammer lock hornsidiom non-circular non-consensual pick piggy in the middle provocateur quarrel quibble says who?idiom the fur fliesidiom throw squabble | American Dictionarysquabble noun[ C ] us/ˈskwɑb·əl/ a disagreement, often about an unimportant matter: family squabbles with your brothers and sisters squabbleverb[ I ]us/ˈskwɑb·əl/ They squabbled about how the money would be spent. Examples of squabblesquabble Rather, questions of trust, family and partnership squabbles, and inheritance problems were paramount. In the civil court, however, people squabbled over capital, be it money, real estate or land. Are we bound to end up with squabbling reviews and overlooked evidence? This bureaucracy functioned well even though its members were obsessed with petty squabbles over issues of honour, prestige, and precedence. Whatever dust-ups and squabbles there may be along the way, science is an essentially co-operative venture. The results of these past thirty years are not easily summarized, particularly in view of the unresolved methodological squabbles of the 1970s and 80s. His greatest irritation was reserved for the ecclesiastical factions, which damaged the church's power and popular attractiveness by squabbling among themselves about doctrine and ritual. We don't talk about political parties that are squabbling all the time, splitting off from one another. Representing diverse ethnic groups, they lacked common goals or visions and were thus plagued by internal rivalry and squabbles. The struggle was fundamentally about political predominance, though it often took the form of squabbles over education and the use of language. Problems also arose from establishing parties 'from above', without the essential base of a mass movement concerned to criticise society, and worlds away from the squabbling trade union movements. Andrew certainly finds the current version: the perennial 'processual v. postprocessual' squabble, unrewarding, recognizing the merits of both sides. A number of others were ruined through legal battles with each other or through squabbles over inheritance and partition sparked by the escalating commercial values of their holdings. Theirs was a world of learning, of scholarly disputation, and hard graft in practice, as well as often a world of edgy competition, squabbles and anxiety. Lutheran parsonages were intended to be exempla of domestic propriety, but evidence suggests that clergy wives often struggled to maintain their status or stay out of local squabbles. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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