Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense, 3rd person singular present tense wrangles, present participle wrangling, past tense, past participle wrangled
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. (长时间)吵架,争吵,争论 [Also VERB]
The two sides have spent most of their time wrangling over procedural problems. [VERB + over]
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. [V + with/over]
ADJECTIVE | VERB + WRANGLE | WRANGLE + VERB | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤bitter激烈的口角➤lengthy, long-running長時間的爭論▸➤legal, planning (BrE) 法律糾紛;規劃爭論◇a lengthy planning wrangle over the height of the building長期以來對於建築高度的規劃爭論VERB + WRANGLE➤be drawn into, have被捲入爭論;發生口角WRANGLE + VERB➤ensue爭論隨之而起▸➤continue爭論繼續◇The legal wrangle continues.法律爭論在繼續。PREPOSITION➤in a/the wrangle在爭吵中◇The two countries fell out in a bitter wrangle over imports.這兩個國家在有關進口問題的激烈爭論中鬧翻了。➤wrangle between⋯之間的爭吵◇The wrangle between the school and the local authority has gone on for two years.學校和地方當局之間的紛爭已經持續兩年了。➤wrangle over, wrangle with關於⋯的/同⋯的爭吵◇I don't want to get into a wrangle with the committee.我不想同委員會發生爭執。