wrangle over/about• It follows years of wrangling over a controversial by-pass.• One in five had wrangles over a directdebit or standing order.• What was looming was the protracted constitutionalwrangle over Lloyd-George's budget and the House of Lords.• The second Lord Baltimore worried about the growingsize of churchproperties and outlasted the Jesuits in persistentwrangles about such holdings.• In their last weekly meeting before the summer recess the commissioners wrangled over the final wording of the document.• Sources say the parties are also wrangling over the length of the deal.• There had been a great deal of wrangling over the menu.
Originwrangle2
(1300-1400) Perhaps from Low Germanwrangeln“to fight, make a disturbance”
ADJECTIVE | VERB + WRANGLE | WRANGLE + VERB | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤bitter激烈的口角➤lengthy, long-running長時間的爭論▸➤legal, planning (BrE) 法律糾紛;規劃爭論◇a lengthy planning wrangle over the height of the building長期以來對於建築高度的規劃爭論VERB + WRANGLE➤be drawn into, have被捲入爭論;發生口角WRANGLE + VERB➤ensue爭論隨之而起▸➤continue爭論繼續◇The legal wrangle continues.法律爭論在繼續。PREPOSITION➤in a/the wrangle在爭吵中◇The two countries fell out in a bitter wrangle over imports.這兩個國家在有關進口問題的激烈爭論中鬧翻了。➤wrangle between⋯之間的爭吵◇The wrangle between the school and the local authority has gone on for two years.學校和地方當局之間的紛爭已經持續兩年了。➤wrangle over, wrangle with關於⋯的/同⋯的爭吵◇I don't want to get into a wrangle with the committee.我不想同委員會發生爭執。