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

化学

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.
  1. ...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
• (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

• The process is a little like identifying Tom Wolfe by ignoring his suits and his spats and concentrating instead on his socks, but it gets results.
  这一过程有点像通过不问他穿什么衣服和鞋罩而集中注意其袜子来识别汤姆·沃尔夫，但是这种办法能出结果。
• 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。
• Last night, old man spats and ACE got into a little scuffle.
  昨晚老家伙斯班和艾斯都嗝屁了。
• He's nothing but trouble in cheap spats.
  他只是一个只会惹事生非的混蛋。
• At this point, as they're two old men, Jens and Kahn really ought to just fight to the death or something, because their verbal spats are boring now.
  但目前，因为两位已经老了，延斯和卡恩看来需要拼一死活还是做些什么别的，否则他们俩的斗嘴就显得有些无趣了。
• These spats can be exaggerated.
  这些龃龉可能有些夸大了。
• And so was his partner, spats.
  都是举止优雅的强盗。
• This paper was aimed to determine the optimum salinity ranges of larvae and spats on the basis of analyses of variance.
  本文运用生物统计法确定西施舌幼虫和贝苗的适宜盐度范围，结果表明。
• These kinds of spats, frankly, help neither country.
  坦率地说，这种争执对中美两国都没什么好处。
• 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。