cavil
英['kævl]
美['kævl]
- 挑毛病， 吹毛求疵
词态变化
复数: cavils;第三人称单数: cavils;过去式: cavilled;过去分词: cavilled;现在分词: cavilling;
双语例句
- 1. Let us not cavil too much.
- 我们就别太挑剔了。
- 2. A carper will cavil at anything.
- 爱挑剔的人对什么都挑剔.
- 3. Even he could find nothing to cavil about.
- 连他都挑不出什么毛病来.
- 4. I don't think this is the time to cavil at the wording of the report.
- 我觉得现在还不是对报告的措辞较真的时候。
- 5. Most practitioners reject the idea of a " new science " and cavil even at the word futurology.
- 大多数实践者反对 “ 新科学 ” 的这一想法,甚至对未来学这个词吹毛求疵.