example: in order to impede progress, one of the committee members used to quibble about small details.
为了阻止事情取得进展,委员会的一位委员总是对细节吹毛求疵。
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。
as defined, it is hard to quibble with.
按照规定,它是很难被挑毛病的。
those who disparaged the romeo and juliet experience, whether they were shakespeare shunners, or purists, or simply sticks in the mud, might be prepared to quibble over moulin rouge.
那些把《罗密欧与朱丽叶》一剧贬得一文不值的人,包括无论是莎士比亚的忠实拥护者也好,还是纯粹主义者,或根本就是顽固不化的人也好,这下都可以再对《红磨坊》好好评论一番了。
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。
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。
but we don「t need to quibble over terminology.
但我们不需要一直说术语。
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。
others barge into job interviews, or call afterwards to find out why junior didn」t get the job or, if he did, to quibble over work schedules or pay.
还有的人则会直接闯到求职面试现场,或者在面试之后打来电话,追问为什么他们的孩子没有被录用。如果他们的孩子被录用了,他们又会为工作安排或者薪酬纠缠不休。
a pragmatist might contend that this is no time to quibble about economic theories.
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。
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。