wrangles

英 [ˈræŋɡlz]

美 [ˈræŋɡlz]

n.  (长时间的)争论，争吵
v.  (通常为长时间地)争吵，争辩
wrangle的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• V-RECIP (长时间)吵架，争吵，争论
  If you say that someoneis wrangling withsomeoneovera question or issue, you mean that they have been arguing angrily for quite a long time about it.
  1. The two sides have spent most of their time wrangling over procedural problems...
     双方大部分时间都在围绕程序问题争论不休。
  2. A group of MPs is still wrangling with the government over the timing of elections.
     一群下院议员仍在与政府就选举的时间安排争吵个不停。
  3. Wrangleis also a noun.
     
  4. The party was torn apart by wrangles over fiscal policy...
     该党内部因为在财政政策上争执不休而出现了分裂。
  5. He was involved in a legal wrangle with the Health Secretary.
     他卷入了与卫生大臣的法律纠纷之中。

双语例句

• The legal wrangles have been complex and lucrative for lawyers already involving numerous appeals and consuming a great deal of court time.
  这场法律争辩已经复杂化，律师们也想敲一笔：这其中已经涉及了无数的上诉和消耗大量的开庭时间。
• The struggles and wrangles of the lads for her hand in a jig were an amusement to her-no more;
  她看到小伙子们竞相争着要同她跳一曲吉格舞时，心里头只感到好笑，并没有想到别的；
• We've got four generations under one roof, only one generation less than the'ideal'family, but never a day goes by without open quarrels and secret wrangles.
  我们这个大家庭，还不曾到五世同堂，不过四代人，就弄成了这个样子。明明是一家人，然而没有一天不在明争暗斗。
• Behind today's wrangles at the United Nations lies one harsh and usually unspoken realisation: if everything fails and the US or Israel feels compelled to launch military strikes to destroy Iran's nuclear facilities, the consequences would be profound.
  目前联合国争论的背后，隐藏着一个严峻但通常不点明的认识：如果所有的努力终成泡影，美国或以色列不得不发动军事袭击摧毁伊朗的核设施，后果将是深远的。
• When the delegates got into wrangles with one another on how this new kind of government should work, it was Benjamin Franklin who was always there to arrange a compromise.
  当代表们就这一新型的政府究竟应该怎样工作而互相争论不休时，他总能安排一个折衷的解决方案。
• They hope to see politicians in exciting wrangles and to get some fun out of politics.
  他们期望政治人物进行有趣的战斗，期望从政治中获得娱乐。
• This "beefed up" IMF should not, however, be the knight who will save Europe from its wrangles.
  不过，充实后的imf不应当成为欧洲的骑士，把欧洲从内部争吵中解救出来。
• Such wrangles are everything in a city that is fast becoming recognised for its spectacular schemes to put up new towers.
  在一座被认为是将要摩天高楼鳞次而起的城市里，这些争吵变得很正常。
• In a sense, the responsibility of a judge is to individualize the law of high generality and integrate the law with the fact of individual law cases, so that the law can be employed to resolve different disputes and wrangles.
  从某种意义上讲，法官的职责就是将共性的法律个别化，使共性的法律与个案事实相结合，运用法律定纷止争。