词为我用 - bicker

词汇释义

bicker IELTS  GRE

UK  /ˈbɪk.ər/ US  /ˈbɪk.ɚ/

verb, When people bicker, they argue or quarrel about unimportant things.斗嘴，争吵，发生口角

外刊例句

1. It's either that or spend the next two years listening to Miliband and Cameron bicker over who's got the bigger peashooter to aim at the banks.(The Guardian)

2. As others bicker, it has gone about building community centres, mosques, primary and secondary schools and clinics.(The Economist)

3. In 2009 the isthmus saw nearly 19,000 murders or 45 per 100,000 people, making it the most violent place in the world. While the mafias are untroubled by national boundaries, Central America's governments bicker over them.(The Economist)

4. Efforts to form a coalition will be complicated, however, by the fact that Fortuyn's followers had not elected a successor to replace him in the days before the election and had already begun to bicker.(The Economist)

5. Today, he says, a growing number of families want to be buried in France, where their French children can pay visits. Members of France's official Muslim body, the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM), bicker interminably at national level.(The Economist)

6. Sub-regional trade groups such as Mercosur and the Andean Community, which made progress in the 1990s, have stagnated or fallen apart. Yet while the politicians bicker, corporate Latin America is quietly moving closer together.(The Economist)

7. Yet even in the most collaborative Congress, both sides would duck the issue, preferring instead to bicker over the mere 15% of the budget (excluding defence) that it re-authorises each year.America has changed since the days of Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton.(The Economist)

8. The swipes at Mr Bouteflika, it is thought, may have been occasioned by a dispute over who should be promoted into, and who should be retired out of, the charmed circle of military power brokers. As the generals bicker, Algeria sinks deeper into crisis.(The Economist)

9. They bicker, miscommunicate, fall in love and perform operations against a tapestry of cross-cultural desire, political change and colourful symptomatology at the sweetly named Missing Hospital on the edge of Addis Ababa.(The Economist)

10. Agreeing on how to combat the problem is tricky, given that experts continue to bicker on what, precisely, makes us fat.(The Economist)

11. From 1905, when Russia lost its war with Japan, the southern part of Sakhalin was ruled by the Japanese; it was taken back in 1945, along with four smaller islands that the two countries still bicker over.(The Economist)

12. While other politicians bicker, the mayor presents himself as a man who gets things done for the capital's 8.8m people.In this section The man who would be president Falling back on friends On the cheap Loveless relationships ReprintsLike Mr Fox, Mr López Obrador has been in office for three years, but has more to show for it.(The Economist)

13. Twitter, Google, Apple and Facebook might bicker, but they do exchange data, and so appear to Koreans as a foreign block, solid enough for Koreans to have given it an acronym: TGIF.(The Economist)

14. In a nondescript building next to the Hard Rock Cafe in downtown Washington, a group of lawyers gathers every fortnight to bicker in public.(The Economist)

15. We have not said we will expel them". So near and yet so far at government level, the two sides still bicker over what they call the "three direct links": communication, trade and transportation, which have been disrupted since the end of the civil war.(The Economist)

词汇搭配

bicker over

词汇来源

early 14c., bikere, "to skirmish, fight," perhaps from Middle Dutch bicken "to slash, stab, attack," + -er, Middle English frequentative suffix (as in blabber, hover, patter). Meaning "to quarrel, petulantly contend with words" is from mid-15c. Meaning "make a noisy, repeated clatter" is from 1748. Related: Bickered; bickering.

近义词

altercate, argue, argufy, brabble, brawl, controvert, dispute, fight, quarrel, quibble, squabble, tiff, wrangle

反义词

coexist,accept, agree, assent, concur, consent

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