V-RECIP (长时间)吵架,争吵,争论 If you say that someone is wrangling with someone over a question or issue, you mean that they have been arguing angrily for quite a long time about it.
The two sides have spent most of their time wrangling over procedural problems... 双方大部分时间都在围绕程序问题争论不休。
A group of MPs is still wrangling with the government over the timing of elections. 一群下院议员仍在与政府就选举的时间安排争吵个不停。
Wrangle is also a noun.
The party was torn apart by wrangles over fiscal policy... 该党内部因为在财政政策上争执不休而出现了分裂。
He was involved in a legal wrangle with the Health Secretary. 他卷入了与卫生大臣的法律纠纷之中。
The two schools of thought wrangled, each sticking to its guns. 两个学派各执一说,互相论难。
Wrangling gators is a time-honored right of passage for southern boys, like 10-year-old Michael Dasher, who wrestled and wrangled a 6-foot gator in Florida in 2011. 对美国南部的男孩来说,抓捕鳄鱼是他们成长过程中一项经久不衰的传统特权。2011年,福罗里达州一个10岁男孩迈克尔·达史尔就曾和一只6英尺长的鳄鱼摔跤搏斗。
Authority of invention is wrangled for Chinese people to prevent intellectual property rights fall into foreign person. 为中国人争得了发明权,防止其知识产权落入外国人之手。
It was available at a moment's notice, purchased at a bodega or wrangled from a vending machine. 这在当时的宣传中是随处可见的,购买还是同自动贩卖机争论。
He always wrangled and dickered. 他总是吵吵嚷嚷地和人讨价还价。
I suppose that's a small price to be paid for portability at a time when people still wrangled with the idea of using a mouse to control a computer. 我猜想在那个人们还在为用鼠标控制计算机的想法而争吵的年代,这个价格对于便携性而言算是非常便宜的。
The two friends wrangled and now they don't speak to each other. 那对好朋友吵嘴了,到现在还彼此还不说话呢。