squabble over/about• A bill before the House signals the end of the realbattle and the start of a squabble overdetail.• Now moderate and conservative Republicans are squabbling over the interpretation.• As a result of that, the federalassembly spent two weeks squabbling over the issue.• The crime remained unique, and lawmakers were still squabbling over the ramifications.• At a third, two little boyssquabble over the telephone, which has been unplugged.• Families sat on the wooden benches squabbling over their picnics.• So I led a peaceable life, isolated from the intermittentscientificsquabbles over who had first rights to which animals.• When last we left our young testers, they were squabbling over whose turn it was to dress the potatoes.
ADJECTIVE | VERB + SQUABBLE | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤minor, petty小口角▸➤bitter, unseemly (BrE) 激烈的/不體面的爭吵▸➤domestic, family, marital家庭口角;夫婦間的爭吵➤political政治爭端▸➤internal, public內部爭執;公開爭吵VERB + SQUABBLE➤have爭吵▸➤resolve, settle解決/平息爭吵PREPOSITION➤squabble about, squabble over就⋯爭吵◇squabbles about money為錢發生的爭吵➤squabble among, squabble between⋯間的爭吵◇I always have to settle squabbles between the children.我總是得平息孩子們間的爭吵。➤squabble with與⋯的爭吵◇a squabble with her publisher over royalties就版稅問題與她的出版商產生的爭吵