英语释义

• quibbling over insignificant details;

  "caviling pettifoggers and quiggling pleaders"-Edmund Burke

  "her nagging and carping attack"

  "thought her editor unnecessarily nitpicking"

  "a pettifogging lawyer's mind"

  "had no patience with quibbling critics"

片语

casuistry诡辩；决疑论，决疑法

sophism诡辩

captiously吹毛求疵的

supercritical[物][物化] 超临界的；吹毛求疵的

英汉例句

• Stop quibbling about the use of the comma.

  别再争辩逗号的用法了。

• Freed from the pettifogging concerns of quibbling lawyers and self-serving politicians, goes the argument, he can concentrate on eradicating extremism.

  有个论调说，摆脱了吹毛求疵的律师和自私的政客们的所谓的关心，他能够集中精力根除极端主义。

• Its doubting and challenging, its quibbling and dialectics, often are irritating to common people.

  它的疑惑和诘难，它的诡辨和辩证，常常是令人讨厌的。

• American environmentalists say it is not worth quibbling about a few percentage points, given the huge sweep of the package and its swift passage.

  美国环保人士说，鑒于方案的巨大影响和快速通过，为几个百分点争论不休不值得。

• The Old Trafford defeat may have been undeserved, but there is no quibbling with the aggregate score.

  老特拉福德之败或许有些冤，但看看总比分，枪手的颓势便一目了然，毫无争议。

• This paper proceeds with most common sophistry in humor, and takes some examples to analyze that quibbling applies to humor comprehensively and unsubstitutably.

  本文从幽默中最常见的诡辩术入手，举例分析说明了诡辩运用于幽默的广泛性和不可替代性。

• It is sometimes argued that there is no point in studying philosophy as all philosophers ever do is sit around quibbling over the meaning of words.

  有人时不时地争辩说：研究哲学没有任何意义，因为哲学家们的所作所为，是围坐在一起，就词的意思吹毛求疵。

• Stop quibbling about the use of the comma.

  生活是一系列的逗号，不是句号。

• Gates had put in more work than Allen, and eventually after some quibbling from Gates, Allen agreed to a 64-36 split.

  盖茨把大部分功劳都归给自己，最终经过他的一番纠缠，艾伦同意了64-36分账。

• Right results, wrong behavior can be quibbling to culture.

  正确的结果，错误的行为会破坏文化。

• If you are satisfied with the contract, why are you quibbling about the exact hours?

  如果你对合同满意，又为何对确切的时数而斤斤计较呢？

相似词

criticism批评；考证；苛求