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

• These spats can be exaggerated.
  这些龃龉可能有些夸大了。
• 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）。
• 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。
• Chinese bitterness over arms sales could complicate efforts to resolve such spats.
  中国在对台军售的态度可能是这些争议的解决又添新结。
• Such spats are creating a paradise for short sellers.
  此类摩擦为做空者创造了绝好的机会。
• The process is a little like identifying Tom Wolfe by ignoring his suits and his spats and concentrating instead on his socks, but it gets results.
  这一过程有点像通过不问他穿什么衣服和鞋罩而集中注意其袜子来识别汤姆·沃尔夫，但是这种办法能出结果。
• 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。
• BEIJING-China and Australia signed a series of cooperation agreements on Tuesday as Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard attempted to boost ties and smooth over recent spats with China.
  北京&中国和澳大利亚周二时签署一系列合作协议，澳大利亚总理吉拉德希望加强联系，消除与中国最近的摩擦。
• These kinds of spats, frankly, help neither country.
  坦率地说，这种争执对中美两国都没什么好处。