spar
spar 英 [spɑ:(r)] 美 [spɑr]
n. [矿物] 晶石；圆材（如桅、桁等）；争论；拳斗 vi. 争论；拳击 vt. 装圆材于
进行时:sparring 过去式:sparred 过去分词:sparred 第三人称单数:spars 名词复数:spars
- If you spar with someone, you exchange light blows — either literally by punching each other, or figuratively by exchanging verbal blows.
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- n. [矿物] 晶石；圆材（如桅、桁等）；争论；拳斗
- vi. 争论；拳击
- vt. 装圆材于
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1. They always spar over trivial matters.
他们总是为一些小事而争吵。
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2. People in the industry say spar and Vafias are just two of a long list of companies engaged in charter conflicts with Grand China.
业内人士说，Spar和Vafias只是众多与大新华物流发生租赁纠纷的公司中的两家。
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3. Meanwhile, industry, civil society groups and governments continue to spar over the application of intellectual property rights to products and genetic sequences derived from natural resources.
其间，工业、民间社会团体以及政府持续对申请产品和得自自然资源的基因序列的知识产权问题产生争论。
- spar (n.1) early 14c., "rafter;" late 14c., "stout pole," from or cognate with Middle Low German or Middle Dutch sparre, from Proto-Germanic *sparron (source also of Old English *spere "spear, lance," Old Norse sperra "rafter, beam," German Sparren "spar, rafter"), from PIE root *sper- (1) "spear, pole" (see spear (n.1)). Nautical use, in reference to one used as a mast, yard, boom, etc., dates from 1630s. Also borrowed in Old French as esparre, which might be the direct source of the English word.
- spar (n.2) "crystalline mineral that breaks easily into fragments with smooth surfaces," 1580s, from Low German Spar, from Middle Low German *spar, *sper, cognate with Old English spær- in spærstan "gypsum."
- spar (v) late 14c., "go quickly, rush, dart, spring;" c. 1400, "to strike or thrust," perhaps from Middle French esparer "to kick" (Modern French éparer), from Italian sparare "to fling," from Latin ex- (see ex-) + parare "make ready, prepare," hence "ward off, parry" (from PIE root *pere-(1) "to produce, procure"). Etymologists consider a connection with spur unlikely. Used in 17c. in reference to preliminary actions in a cock fight; figurative sense of "to dispute, bandy with words" is from 1690s. Extension to humans, in a literal sense, with meaning "to engage in or practice boxing" is attested from 1755. Related: Sparred; sparring.
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