英语释义

• evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections

• argue over petty things;

  "Let's not quibble over pennies"

• an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections

片语

quibble symptom诡辩癥

quibble over诡辩

quibble e遁词

quibble subterfuge因为故意躲闪或掩饰错误

pun quibble有明暗两层含义的话语

fallacy谬论，谬误

carp at挑剔

to quibble狡辩

nto quibble狡辩

idola谬论；谬见

equivocate quibble说模棱两可的话

prove that black is white and white black诡辩；颠倒黑白

quibble about争辩琐屑的事

英汉例句

• businessmen quibble that they could better tap fast-growing markets in asia if the boj did more to cheapen the yen.

  商人们质疑如果日本央行采取更多行动让日元贬值就会在亚洲的开拓快速增长的市场的做法。

• fact-checkers quibble that, according to his written plans, he really means 95% of families with children, not 95% of americans.

  追究事实者则反讥说，根据奥巴马的书面计划，他的95％指的是有孩子的家庭，而不是95%的美国人。

• but a wise blogger once said that it「s a good principle to argue about other people」s main points, not to quibble over side issues.

  但一位睿智的博主曾经说过争论就要争论主要的观点，而不要去计较边边角角的问题。

• it「s possible to quibble with these numbers, as you」ll see when you play with the fields yourself.

  当你随便考虑你自己的领域时会发现，可能用这些数字说些模棱两可的话。

• now, before organizations start to quibble over the optimal quality of service for a share service, they might want to agree on what the interface to the shared service needs to look like.

  现在，在组织开始对共享服务的最优服务质量吹毛求疵前，可能会希望对共享服务接口的情况达成一致。

• we can quibble about fruit all day, but a more productive response would be to recommit to the principle that 15 (or 17) percent proficiency just isn’t good enough, no matter where you live.

  我们可以整天拿水果比喻来比喻去，但更有意义的做法是重新意识到：无论你住哪，15%或17%的合格率都远远不够好。

• the american administration may quibble about multilateral law enforcement on some issues. but its cyber-sheriffs want an international posse, as soon as possible.

  美国当局可能在某些问题的多边执法方面含糊其辞，但其网络安全官需要一个国际武装队，越快越好。

• though experts still quibble about the exact nature of how the ship broke up, a consensus does seem to be forming around how titanic sank.

  虽然专家们仍然在推测船体一分为二的确切原因，一种共识似乎可以解释泰坦尼克号的沉没。

• one small quibble is the affectation in the title that this period of california「s history began in 1950 and ended in 1963 (coincidentally the year of president kennedy」s assassination).

  这个小的谬论就是标题中的一种掩饰。那个时代，加州的历史始于1950，终于1963(巧合的是，1963年肯尼迪总统在那年遇害)。

• although wenzhounese quibble about degrees of illegality, there is no question that stepping over the line can lead to serious consequences.

  虽然温州人对于其合法性含糊其辞，但是毫无疑问一旦胆敢越雷池一步将会有十分严重的后果。

• bolivia continues to clamour for its lost outlet to the sea. apart from a minor quibble over the land border, peru makes no such claim.

  玻利维亚仍然继续为丢掉自己的通海渠道而喧闹不休，而秘鲁除了对国界有些不足为奇的异议之外，并没有采取类似之举。

• whether your purpose is to promote freedom, to curb it, or to quibble about its definition, the reports of freedom house, an american lobby group, make good reading.

  不论您的目的是促进自由、压制自由，还是为自由的定义狡辩，「自由之家」（美国一游说团体）的报告都是很好的阅读材料。

• there are several other reasons americans can quibble over the use of gdp per head, especially with reference to japan.

  美国推托使用人均gdp有其他的一些原因，特别是在以日本为参照的时候。

• another quibble is that the treasury figures do not reflect the continuing squeeze on welfare beyond 2012-13.

  另一个模糊不清的情况是财政部的数据里并不反应2012-13年以后对福利事业的继续紧缩。

• one quibble is that many investigations of genetics and behaviour have relied on participants’ retrospective reports of their earlier psychological states, which are often inaccurate.

  一种批评的说辞认为与基因和行为相关的许多科学研究依赖于参与者对他们过去心理状态的回顾报告——这经常是不精确的。

• but let「s go out on a limb and say there aren」t many who would quibble with the description of china as money-obsessed.

  不过，让我们冒点风险，这么说吧，如果称中国是个着迷于金钱的国家，恐怕没有多少人会有异议。

• as defined, it is hard to quibble with.

  按照规定，它是很难被挑毛病的。

• you could always quibble with any study that estimates the effectiveness of one policy versus another. you can also argue circumstances change and different policies become appropriate.

  你总是可以通过研究来挑剔一个政策相对另一个的有效性，也可以认为大气候的变化需要不同的政策来适应。

• a pragmatist might contend that this is no time to quibble about economic theories. we need measures that get proven results.

  实用主义者或许会声称，现在没有时间辩论经济理论，我们需要能证明结果的措施。

• each ecological disaster or problem traces its cause back to carbon. to quibble about this is really fiddling while rome burns.

  每次生态灾难或者生态问题都源于碳含量，对此如果还想为此狡辩，真可谓是大难临头却袖手旁观了。

• one small quibble is the affectation in the title that this period of california’s history began in 1950 and ended in 1963 (coincidentally the year of president kennedy’s assassination).

  标题的矫饰包含一个小双关语—加州的这段历史跨越1950到1963年（肯尼迪总统恰巧在这一年被暗杀）。

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differ使…相异；使…不同

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