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

• I thought we must give up these fights, spats, all of it.
  我想我们应该停止打架，争斗，所有这些。
• 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。
• There was always a good player inside Materazzi trying to get out – but too often it was hidden behind spats, red cards and a tendency to burst into tears.
  马特拉齐一直努力想作为一名球场上的好球员离场，但，这愿望总被很多事掩盖，肘击，红牌，以及一些强忍的眼泪。
• The chickens and coking coal at the heart of this week's trade spats will not change that basic fact.
  本周围绕禽类产品和炼焦煤展开的贸易纠纷，不会改变上述基本事实。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Then, there was no regulating framework for global trade; now both America and China are acting within the WTO, which was created precisely to keep such spats within rules.
  更何况，那个时候全球贸易的规章制度还未成形，现在的中国和美国必须在世贸组织框架内采取行动。世贸组织创立的初衷也是为了将贸易纷争限制在一定范围内。
• If spats over minutiae – such as the regulation of tax havens or bankers'pay – were to stand in the way of a deal, the verdict of history would be damning.
  如果我们在像“避税天堂”的规定或银行家的收入这些细节上争吵，，这将阻挡交易。历史上的最终判决将是臭骂。