carping是什么意思？

carping

英['kɑ:pɪŋ] 美['kɑpɪŋ]

• adj. 挑剔的；
• v. 挑剔，吹毛求疵，找茬儿( carp的现在分词 )；

例句

• European carping over the phraseology represented a mixture of hypocrisy and subterfuge. 欧洲在措词上找岔子的做法既虚伪又狡诈.
• He cannot understand why she's constantly carping at him. 他不明白为什么她总是找他的茬儿。
• She was in no mood to put up with Blanche's carping. 她心情不好，受不了布兰奇的吹毛求疵。
• He cannot understand why she's constantly carping at him... 他不明白为什么她总是找他的茬儿。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-VAR
  鲤鱼
  A carp is a kind of fish that lives in lakes and rivers.
• VERB
  挑剔；吹毛求疵；发牢骚
  If you say that someone is carping, you mean that they keep criticizing or complaining about someone or something, especially in a way you think is unnecessary or annoying.
  例句
  He cannot understand why she's constantly carping at him... 他不明白为什么她总是找他的茬儿。 This was the man whom other trainers love to carp about. 这就是老被其他教练挑毛病的那个人。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. persistent petty and unjustified criticism
• Adjective
  1. quibbling over insignificant details;
  "caviling pettifoggers and quiggling pleaders"-Edmund Burke"her nagging and carping attack""thought her editor unnecessarily nitpicking""a pettifogging lawyer's mind""had no patience with quibbling critics"