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Bicker V Bickering Skirmish Middle Bikə V.为小事争吵 英

单词 bicker
音标 ['bikə]
解释 v.为小事争吵
红宝书 【英】 v. 为小事争吵(quarrel about unimportant things)
【例】 The children are always bickering .
字源 bicker (v.)
early 14c., bikere, "to skirmish, fight," perhaps from Middle Dutch bicken "to slash, stab, attack," + -er, Middle English frequentative suffix. Meaning "to quarrel" is from mid-15c. Related: Bickered; bickering.

bicker (n.)
c.1300, skirmish, battle; from the same source as bicker (v.). In modern use, often to describe the sound of a flight of an arrow or other repeated, loud, rapid sounds, in which sense it is perhaps at least partly echoic.
不择手段背单词 v. 发生口角(因坏脾气引起的小争吵); (为琐事)争吵
【例】The two boys were always bickering over toy guns 这两个孩子总是为了玩具枪而争吵.
【根】中古英语bikeren[攻击]
【记】读: 必渴. 必然会渴-因为发生口角肯定会渴-太浪费吐沫.
趣味全助记 【记】biker 骑自行车的人总爱发生口角 beak;speaker 演说者总爱争论

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