squabble
squabble 英 ['skwɒb(ə)l] 美 ['skwɑbl]
vi. 发生口角；大声争吵 vt. 弄乱（排好的铅字） n. 争吵；口角
进行时:squabbling 过去式:squabbled 过去分词:squabbled 第三人称单数:squabbles 名词复数:squabbles
- A squabble is a fight but not necessarily a serious one. When we squabble, we have a little argument, probably about something not too important.
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- vi. 发生口角；大声争吵
- vt. 弄乱（排好的铅字）
- n. 争吵；口角
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1. But this conflict is really a family squabble.
但是这次冲突实际上是一场家庭争吵。
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2. After a family squabble, her son, Clifton Jenes Jr., 20, threatened to harm himself, led police on a car chase through downtown and then jumped from the Fourth Street bridge.
在一场家庭争吵以后 她20岁的儿子克里夫顿.詹尼斯以自残威胁她 致使警方开着汽车冲过市中心 然后闯进第四号街桥。
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3. This was a light -hearted article about a small family squabble where the husband “walked out” on his wife.
这是一篇轻幽默的问扎国内，讲的是一个小家庭之中因为丈夫“背叛”妻子而发生口角的事。
- squabble (n.) c. 1600, probably from a Scandinavian source and of imitative origin (compare dialectal Swedish skvabbel "a quarrel, a dispute," dialectal German schwabbeln "to babble, prattle"). The verb also is from c. 1600. Related: Squabbled; squabbling.
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