做這件事(動詞)
核心畫面正在發生的時候,就是動詞:有人停在小石頭前面不走。
verb · C1
To argue or complain about small details that do not really matter, often about the exact words someone used, instead of dealing with the main point.
為小事爭辯、挑細節
You can think of quibble as someone stopping the whole cart for a . The big thing is basically fine; the argument is about one small piece of it, very often the exact words. The word carries the size of the point and the speaker's opinion of it at the same time.
Origin uncertain. One account is quib plus the small-thing ending -le, with quib probably from Latin quibus, a word that filled old legal papers and came to suggest fussy, word-picking argument.
來源不確定。一個說法是 quib 加上表示「小」的字尾 -le;而 quib 可能來自拉丁文 quibus,那是舊法律文件裡滿滿都是的字,久了就讓人聯想到咬文嚼字、纏著細節的講法。可以想成:字尾的「小」和法律文件的「摳字眼」,剛好就是今天這個字的兩個成分。
Wiktionary entry for quibble (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:367866886), etymology section
Two branches
做這件事(動詞)
核心畫面正在發生的時候,就是動詞:有人停在小石頭前面不走。
verb · C1
To argue or complain about small details that do not really matter, often about the exact words someone used, instead of dealing with the main point.
為小事爭辯、挑細節
被挑出來的那個小點(名詞)
把鏡頭從爭辯的人移到那顆小石頭上,動作就變成了東西——那個被挑出來的小意見。
noun · C1
A small complaint or objection about a detail that does not change the main judgement — often about the exact wording of something.
小意見、小小的不滿