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bickering怎么读？

bickering

['bikəriŋ]

英英释义实用场景例句

近义词contentious disagreement

n. 争吵；争论
v. 争吵（bicker的ing形式）

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词态变化

动词: bicker;

助记提示

1. beak "鸟嘴, 喙" => bick- "stab, attack" + -er (frequentative suffix) => bicker => bickering.

英文词源

bickering (n.): c. 1300, "a skirmish," from bicker (v.). Meaning "a verbal wrangle" is from 1570s.
bickering (adj.): 1808 in the sense of "contentious," present participle adjective from bicker (v.). Earlier it was used to mean "flashing, quivering" (1660s).

双语例句

1. He is still bickering with the control tower over admissible approach routes.: 他还在为可采用的进近航线与指挥塔台争执不下。

2. The election will end months of political bickering.: 这次选举将会结束数月来的政治纷争。

3. Her years of drunken bickering hardened my heart.: 她多年来醉酒寻衅的恶习让我变得麻木。

4. The children are always bickering about something or other.: 孩子们有事没事总是在争吵。

5. The two children were always bickering with each other over small matters.: 这两个孩子总是为些小事斗嘴.