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单词 wrangle
释义
wrangle1 nounwrangle2 verb
wranglewran‧gle1 /ˈræŋɡəl/ noun [countable] Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • wrangles over the budget
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Bureaucratic wrangles were conspicuous at every level.
  • In the United States, a complex wrangle is taking place over a range of possible standards.
  • The wrangle was finally resolved in January last year.
  • The decisions of the union delegations will probably mean a continuing wrangle.
  • The leisure centre has been at the centre of a compensation wrangle since serious building defects were discovered last year.
  • The plan was to avoid annual parliamentary wrangles.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
 a bitter wrangle over copyright
 He was involved in a long legal wrangle with his employers.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· Thus began a long and bitter wrangle between Beck and the private power interests.
a long and complicated argument SYN  battlewrangle over a bitter wrangle over copyrightwrangle with He was involved in a long legal wrangle with his employers.
wrangle1 nounwrangle2 verb
wranglewrangle2 verb Word Origin
WORD ORIGINwrangle2
Origin:
1300-1400 Perhaps from Low German wrangeln ‘to fight, make a disturbance’
Verb Table
VERB TABLE
wrangle
Simple Form
PresentI, you, we, theywrangle
he, she, itwrangles
PastI, you, he, she, it, we, theywrangled
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave wrangled
he, she, ithas wrangled
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad wrangled
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill wrangle
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have wrangled
Continuous Form
PresentIam wrangling
he, she, itis wrangling
you, we, theyare wrangling
PastI, he, she, itwas wrangling
you, we, theywere wrangling
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave been wrangling
he, she, ithas been wrangling
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad been wrangling
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill be wrangling
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have been wrangling
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • As the wrangling has stretched into the new year, Clinton has moved up some in public esteem.
  • He was wrangling for the best deal he could get and trying to ensure it would not be his last.
  • In their last weekly meeting before the summer recess the commissioners wrangled over the final wording of the document.
  • It follows years of wrangling over a controversial by-pass.
  • Since the freehold all belonged to the boss, wrangling over ownership was beside the point.
  • Sources say the parties are also wrangling over the length of the deal.
  • The construction of this market has led to four years of wrangling that could yet scupper agreement.
[intransitive] to argue with someone angrily for a long timewrangle over/about They are still wrangling over ownership of the house.wrangle with The various government departments are wrangling with each other.
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