今日の単語 squabble
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１．今日の単語は squabble です。単語を作るゲーム scrabble を思い出しますが、たぶん意味は違いますね。
London councillors in bizarre squabble over public toilet in Brent – The toilet has been fitted with a new door and flusher. A bizarre row has broken out between councillors over who helped reopen a public toilet in North West London. Lib Dem councillor Anton Georgiou said he was shocked to see council leader Muhammed Butt “take credit for his work” and pose outside a refurbished toilet block in Alperton. (from My London)
ロンドンの公衆トイレのお話。たしかにおかしな squabble です。
Department of Finance caught up in squabble over Catherine Martin’s camp claiming victory on new allocation - A row between the Department of Finance and that of Green Party minister Catherine Martin is pointing up budgetary squabbles. Many departments are keen to claim victory in terms of their budget allocation in order to boost their minister’s profile. But the signs are that the Department of Finance is becoming increasingly irked at claims to the media – before today’s budget speech has even been delivered in the Dáil – that individual ministers have scooped the pot. (from Independent.ie)
こちらは予算をめぐっての squabble でしょうか。
Derbyshire solar farm plans approved despite squabble over benefits to locals – Councillors have approved plans for a solar farm near a Derbyshire town, despite a squabble over how locals would specifically benefit from the scheme. (from Derbyshire Live)
ソーラーパネルプロジェクト。地元民にとってどうなの？まだ squabble の途中じゃなかった？
Polly and Susie were having a squabble about who was going to hold the dog’s lead.
かわいい squabble ですね。子供だと思いますけど。（大人だったら怖いですね）
Often relationships between family members are so strained that squabbles break out.
世界共通ですよね。家族だからこそ、ちいさな squabble は日常茶飯事。
In recent months its government has been paralysed by political squabbling.
困りますよね。でもこちらも世界共通。結局、人間だもの、、、
２．意味はわかったと思いますが、念のため、英英辞典と英和辞典の意味を確認しておきましょう。
an argument over something that is not important:
a disagreement, often about an unimportant matter:
When people squabble, they quarrel about something that is not really important.
〔重要でないことに関して〕つまらない口論
口げんか・言い争いをする
小競合い
今日の単語は
squabble 小競合い、口喧嘩
でした
9か月前の単語は commensurate 釣り合った、ふさわしい