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小词详解 | bicker
As in Western companies, executives bicker over where to spend money.
像在西方企业里一样,高管们也会为该把钱花在哪里争论不休。
——《经济学人》When the children came along, we got caught up in the tallying of efforts, the scorekeeping of who was doing more for the marriage and family and who was being self-serving, unloving and disapproving. We didn’t bicker often, but when we fought, we raged.
孩子出生后,我们对付出变得斤斤计较,计算着谁为婚姻和家庭做得更多,谁表现得自私、没有爱心、总是不以为然的样子。我们不常争吵,但吵架时,我们会大发雷霆。
——《纽约时报》
[动词] 为琐碎的小事争论
孩子们有事没事总是在争吵。他们很难做好家务活。
The children are always bickering about something or other. They are very hard to domesticate.他明确表示,他行医是为了治病救人,而不是浪费时间为预算问题争论不休。
He enunciated that he went into medicine to care for patients, not to waste time bickering over budgets.
Ron and Hermione led the way to History of Magic, bickering.
罗恩和赫敏一路争吵着,朝魔法史课的课堂走去。
squabble: quarrel noisily over a trivial matter quarrel: have a heated argument or disagreement wrangle: have a long and complicated dispute