squabble的意思|squabble的解释-里氏词典

squabble ['skwɒbl]

vi. 争吵, 口角

n. 争吵, 口角

squabble

[ noun ]

a quarrel about petty points

<noun.communication>

[ verb ]

argue over petty things

<verb.communication>

Let's not quibble over pennies

Squabble \Squab"ble\, v. t. (Print.)
To disarrange, so that the letters or lines stand awry or are
mixed and need careful readjustment; -- said of type that has
been set up.

Squabble \Squab"ble\ (skw[o^]b"b'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
{Squabbled} (-b'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Squabbling}
(-bl[i^]ng).] [Cf. dial. Sw. skvabbel a dispute, skvappa to
chide.]
1. To contend for superiority in an unseemly manner; to
scuffle; to struggle; to wrangle; to quarrel.

2. To debate peevishly; to dispute.

The sense of these propositions is very plain,
though logicians might squabble a whole day whether
they should rank them under negative or affirmative.
--I. Watts.

Syn: To dispute; contend; scuffle; wrangle; quarrel;
struggle.

Squabble \Squab"ble\, n.
A scuffle; a wrangle; a brawl.

"It's one thing for Congress or the FCC to intervene in an inter-industry squabble over economics," says John Malone, the president of TeleCommunications Inc., the nation's largest cable company.
The sour atmosphere of a family squabble does not help a sale. Do not hasten to tell your neighbours: so says Andrew Smith, of national agent Strutt & Parker.
Pilson said he wouldn't describe the negotiations as "a squabble over money," but refused to say what was in dispute.
Neither country wants a nasty squabble over the military pecking order to spoil the games.
Instead of debating issues, the Socialists are engaged in an internal squabble over who should be the party's candidate in the presidential elections if President Francois Mitterrand doesn't run.
"We are delighted that Tyson has now decided to raise its bid," Holly Farms lawyer Kenneth Nachbar said in a letter to the Delaware Chancery Court that has refereed the Tyson-Holly-ConAgra squabble.
More than a year after the two men's public squabble, the panel has rejected Mr. Hodel's conference center as impractical and dismissed Mr. Iacocca's ethnic theme parks as too vague to assess.
BARRY BINGHAM SR., patriarch of a media empire, including two Pulitzer Prize-winning newspapers, a TV station and a printing company, who sold the properties in 1986 to end a family squabble. At 82.
The bondholders unearthed an 1889 railroad mortgage squabble and declared, "The Court's reasoning is equally applicable here."
It will mark the latest development in a 5-year-old squabble pitting Smith against his parents.
Both the European Commission in Brussels and the Monopolies Commission in London may have claims for jurisdiction, and it will be important to avoid a squabble.
A year ago, international arbitration ended the last border dispute between Egypt and Israel, a squabble over a 250-acre strip of beach and the plush hotel on it.
Russell Oberman doesn't much care for "you can't get there from here" jokes, ever since a squabble over a railroad crossing began threatening the only access he and five other homeowners have to their homes.
It pushed up against the lira as the markets frowned at the squabble over pension reform between Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government and Italy's trade unions.
UN agencies and NGOs continue to squabble among themselves and fly their own flags.
Friday's squabble centered on concerns from Senate negotiators about provisions that would require tougher emission controls on automobiles and the phase-in of alternative fuel vehicles to reduce urban smog.
Mayor Carroll Thomas said Monday he will appoint a citizens' committee to intervene in the squabble between two rescuers' groups about which producer will film the story of the girl's rescue from an abandoned well.
The first major American squabble over a proposal to raise the pay of members of Congress arose in 1816 and it set back the early political career of Daniel Webster, who later was to become a famous orator, senator, and secretary of state.
A 20-year-old family squabble has spilled into court at Goya Foods Inc., which grew from a small Puerto Rican rice, bean and spice business into a $300 million-a-year food empire.
The widow of Henry Ford II will receive $10.5 million a year for life under a proposed settlement intended to end the family's legal squabble over the auto magnate's $350 million trust.
Last year, Bic changed the pen's name from Biro to Bic Round Stic, but it denies that the squabble with the heirs was the reason.
The Japanese maintain that the matter is purely technical but the US is now poised to treat it as a symbol of unfair trade practices by threatening to escalate the squabble into a political issue.
But she and the others try out the "medicine" on themselves, and the ensuing silliness degenerates into an ugly family squabble.
Because of the sensitivity of what it considered Egyptian land under foreign occupation, the government made Taba off-limits to Egyptians during much of the seven-year squabble over the area.
Unfortunately, the U.S.-Japan squabble begs the real problems.
Court documents provide new evidence that Occidental Petroleum Corp.'s decision to spend $86 million on a museum for Chairman Armand Hammer's personal collection was driven by a squabble Dr. Hammer had with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
The services group resolved a legal squabble and agreed to complete the sale of a 53% voting stake by the German retailer Asko Deutsche Kaufhaus and the Swiss financier Klaus Jacobs from troubled Omni Holding.
But the National Health Service squabble has taken a political toll.
Owen Mayer, attorney for Mr. La Vey, calls the case "basically a domestic squabble."
A partisan squabble kicked off the day as Dole and other Republicans complained about a decision by Nunn to direct staff from a separate subcommittee that he heads to investigate new allegations of excessive drinking against Tower.

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