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

• Spats and the bird met a little girl named Milly.
  斯派茨和小鸟撞到了一个叫米丽的小姑娘。
• 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。
• 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。
• The collision incident is one of several spats straining China's ties with its Asian neighbors while its increasingly powerful navy enforces claims in disputed waters.
  碰撞事故是几个争执中的一个，这些争执使中国和它的亚洲邻居关系紧张，与此同时它日益强大的海军力量对争议海域强制要求。
• I've been waiting on this day, spats.
  我一直在等这一天斯班。
• 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。
• This paper was aimed to determine the optimum salinity ranges of larvae and spats on the basis of analyses of variance.
  本文运用生物统计法确定西施舌幼虫和贝苗的适宜盐度范围，结果表明。
• I mean, that's what old man spats always said.
  我是说，至少老斯巴茨一直是这样说的。
• 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。
• These spats can be exaggerated.
  这些龃龉可能有些夸大了。