A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
争吵
Quarrel
Beware a rickety wall, a savage dog, and a quarrelsome person.
当心摇摇欲坠的墙,凶猛的狗和好争吵的人。
Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.
在争吵中插嘴的人,一定要经常擦擦流着血的鼻子。
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
懦夫比有精神的人更容易发生争吵。
The quarrel that doesn't concern you is pleasant to hear about.
与你无关的争吵听起来很愉快。
Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
大多数争吵都是不可避免的;令人难以置信的。
The noblemen's quarrels can be read on the backs of the peasants.
贵族们的争吵可以从农民的背后看出来。
Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.
我们知道,双方的弱点是所有争吵的座右铭。
One who would quarrel about goats' wool. [A most captious person.]
一个会为羊毛争吵的人。(一个非常挑剔的人。)
There is weeping when separated, there is quarreling when together.
分开时哭泣,在一起时争吵。
A quarrel is like an itch; the more you scratch, the more it itches.
争吵就像痒;你抓得越多,它就越痒。
An answer that does not resolve a quarrel makes a thousand new ones.
一个不能解决争端的答案会产生一千个新的问题。
If two neighbors want to fight, they will find a quarrel in a straw.
如果两个邻居要打架,他们会找个借口的。
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It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.
的确,我们软弱、病态、丑陋、好争吵,但如果我们曾经是这样的人,我们几千年前就从地球上消失了。
He’s a great quarreller, and but that he hath the gift of a coward to allay the gust he hath in quarrelling, ’tis thought among the prudent he would quickly have the gift of a grave.
他是一个好争吵的人,但是他却有一个懦夫的天赋来缓和他在争吵中所带来的阵风。
I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
我有一个爱人与世界争吵。
An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
从最伟大的国家联盟到市镇会议或法衣室,从来没有存在过一种不互相争吵的人的联盟。
The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
这个毫无价值的地球上的最后一个声音将是两个人试图发射一艘自制的宇宙飞船,而且已经在为他们下一步要去哪里而争吵了。