cavil

verb

1. 无端抱怨；挑剔；吹毛求疵
   to make unnecessary complaints about sth

in AM, use 美国英语用 caviling, caviled


1. VERB 挑剔;吹毛求疵
   If you say that someone cavils at something, you mean that they make criticisms of it that you think are unimportant or unnecessary.
   1. Let us not cavil too much...
      我们就别太挑剔了。
   2. 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。
   3. Cavil is also a noun.
      
   4. These cavils aside, most of the essays are very good indeed.
      这些吹毛求疵的批评暂且不论，多数论文的确是很不错的。

1. Let us not cavil too much
   我们就别太挑剔了。
2. 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。
3. There was a time when people loved to carp and cavil at the post-1980s generation, either referring to them as the "beat generation" or claiming they were wet behind the ears.
   曾几何时，人们还对“80后”评头论足，或感叹他们是“垮掉的一代”，或认为他们很嫩很青涩。
4. Captain Paget could find nothing to cavil at.
   佩吉特船长找不到任何可加挑剔的地方。
5. Asking as compared to Henry Cavil, whose body was more sexy?
   不过被问到与男主角亨利卡维尔谁的身材比较「性感」？
6. 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。
7. "If there is anything wrong, I'll nose it out." Even he could find nothing to cavil about.
   要是有什么毛病，我会觉察出来的。连他都挑不出什么毛病来。
8. The one cavil I have about the book is that it is written as a diary.
   我对这本书挑了一个小毛病&它是以日记方式写的。
9. Even he could find nothing to cavil about.
   连他都挑不出什么毛病来。
10. The damage form, aseismic behavior and deformation capacity of cavil walls are studied by pseudo-static low cyclic load test whose sample includes six cavity walls and three solid walls.
    本文通过6片不同拉接筋间距的空心砖复合夹心开洞墙及2片空心砖实体开洞墙的低周期反复荷载试验，研究其破坏形态、抗震性能及变形能力。

  carp bellyache cavil quibble【导航词义：挑剔】

  carp v. 挑剔，吹毛求疵

〔辨析〕指不停地抱怨某事物，令人厌烦，常后接 at sb 或 about sth。

  bellyache v. 〈非正式〉发牢骚，抱怨

〔辨析〕尤指对琐事发牢骚，常后接介词 about。

  cavil v. 〈正式〉无端指责，吹毛求疵

〔辨析〕指对某人或某事物求全责备，不讲道理，常后接介词 at。

  quibble v. 发牢骚，吹毛求疵

〔辨析〕指对无关紧要的事斤斤计较，常后接介词 about/over。

noun

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

   Synonym:    quibblequiddity

verb

1. raise trivial objections

   Synonym:    carpchicane