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

• Such difficulties have even led to high-profile public spats.
  这些困难甚至引发过一些备受瞩目的公开口角。
• He's nothing but trouble in cheap spats.
  他只是一个只会惹事生非的混蛋。
• Trade spats usually serve narrow industry interests.
  贸易争端通常是为狭隘的产业利益服务的。
• The danger is that spats and rows will sour relations between China and America, just as the friendship between Germany and Britain crumbled in the decades before the first world war.
  小的分歧和争吵会让中美关系变味，这才是危险，就像徳英关系在一战前的十年里崩溃（一样）。
• Gasoline is a solvent liquid that removes grease spats.
  汽油是一种能脱去油迹的有溶解能力的液体。
• The bird led Spats to the nearest tree.
  小鸟带着斯派茨跑到了离它们最近的树那里。
• When the bird said go right, spats wanted to go left.
  小鸟说向右走的时候，斯派茨却想向左走。
• 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。
• They are often the subject of Byzantine court spats involving bankrupt state companies and jilted Chinese banks.
  它们往往涉及错综复杂的法庭纠纷，牵涉到破产国有企业和遭遇坏账的中国内地银行。
• And so was his partner, spats.
  都是举止优雅的强盗。