wrangled

英 [ˈræŋɡld]

美 [ˈræŋɡld]

v.  (通常为长时间地)争吵，争辩
wrangle的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• V-RECIP (长时间)吵架，争吵，争论
  If you say that someoneis wrangling withsomeoneovera question or issue, you mean that they have been arguing angrily for quite a long time about it.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
  3. Wrangleis also a noun.
     
  4. 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。
  5. 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。

双语例句

• He always wrangled and dickered.
  他总是吵吵嚷嚷地和人讨价还价。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The two schools of thought wrangled, each sticking to its guns.
  两个学派各执一说，互相论难。