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If someone is quarrelsome, they start fights with words. They pick at people, they snap, they turn small things into arguments. It is not one big fight; it is a habit. You can say it about a person, and sometimes about a mood that keeps breaking into rows. It is a little old-fashioned and a little judging — teachers, parents, and books use it more than teenagers among themselves. It is not as strong as violent: the quarrels are usually talking, not hitting.
愛吵架的、好爭吵的
組成quarrel (a fight with words) + -some (tending to be that way).
同家族的字
- quarrelthe fight; quarrelsome people quarrel a lot
- troublesomesame -some: tending to bring trouble
- burdensomesame -some: tending to feel like a burden
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
quarrelsomeadj/ˈkwɒɹəlsəm/
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Argumentative; fond of or prone to quarreling.
- She's too quarrelsome to participate in a civil conversation.
- And let a Man bevvare, hovv he keepeth Company, vvith Cholerick and Quarelſome Perſons; for they vvill engage him into their ovvne Quarels.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。