spats
英 [spæts]
美 [spæts]
n. 小争吵; 小别扭; 口角; (旧时男子用的)鞋罩
v. 吐，唾(唾沫、食物等); 啐唾沫(常表示愤怒或鄙视); 怒斥
spat的第三人称单数和复数
柯林斯词典
Spatis the past tense and past participle ofspit.- N-COUNT 小争吵;口角;争执
Aspatbetween people, countries, or organizations is a disagreement between them.- ...a spat between America and Germany over interest rates and currencies.
美国与德国在利率与货币方面的争端
- ...a spat between America and Germany over interest rates and currencies.
- (昔时男子使用的)鞋罩
Spatsare specially shaped pieces of cloth or leather which button down one side and which were worn in former times by men over their ankles and part of their shoes.
双语例句
- When the bird said go right, spats wanted to go left.
小鸟说向右走的时候，斯派茨却想向左走。 - The chickens and coking coal at the heart of this week's trade spats will not change that basic fact.
本周围绕禽类产品和炼焦煤展开的贸易纠纷，不会改变上述基本事实。 - I mean, that's what old man spats always said.
我是说，至少老斯巴茨一直是这样说的。 - They are often the subject of Byzantine court spats involving bankrupt state companies and jilted Chinese banks.
它们往往涉及错综复杂的法庭纠纷，牵涉到破产国有企业和遭遇坏账的中国内地银行。 - Then, there was no regulating framework for global trade; now both America and China are acting within the WTO, which was created precisely to keep such spats within rules.
更何况，那个时候全球贸易的规章制度还未成形，现在的中国和美国必须在世贸组织框架内采取行动。世贸组织创立的初衷也是为了将贸易纷争限制在一定范围内。 - More to the point, it will become the most prominent of several bilateral spats, in which the US could threaten to impose across-the-board tariffs on Chinese imports and China could threaten to dump holdings of US Treasury bonds.
更重要的是，它将成为若干双边争端中最为显眼的一桩。在这些争议中，美国可能威胁对中国进口商品征收全面关税，而中国则可能威胁抛售所持的美国国债。 - Trade spats usually serve narrow industry interests.
贸易争端通常是为狭隘的产业利益服务的。 - Chinese bitterness over arms sales could complicate efforts to resolve such spats.
中国在对台军售的态度可能是这些争议的解决又添新结。 - He's nothing but trouble in cheap spats.
他只是一个只会惹事生非的混蛋。 - Such spats are creating a paradise for short sellers.
此类摩擦为做空者创造了绝好的机会。