cavil
单词辨析：
指不停地抱怨某事物，令人厌烦，常后接 at sb 或 about sth。
Please stop carping at me.
请别再挑我的毛病了。
She always finds something to carp about.
她老是吹毛求疵。
尤指对琐事发牢骚，常后接介词 about。
He bellyaches about the job.
他对工作满腹牢骚。
She is bellyaching about the food.
她对饭菜很有怨言。
指对某人或某事物求全责备，不讲道理，常后接介词 at。
He cavilled at everything.
他事事挑剔。
They cavilled at our statement.
他们对我们的声明无端指责。
指对无关紧要的事斤斤计较，常后接介词 about/over。
Don't quibble about unimportant things with me.
别为无关紧要的事和我斤斤计较。
She tends to quibble over minor details.
她常为一些细枝末节而发牢骚。
相关例句：
The damage form, aseismic behavior and deformation capacity of cavil walls are studied by pseudo-static low cyclic load test whose sample includes six cavity walls and three solid walls.
本文通过6片不同拉接筋间距的空心砖复合夹心开洞墙及2片空心砖实体开洞墙的低周期反复荷载试验，研究其破坏形态、抗震性能及变形能力。
Asking as compared to Henry Cavil, whose body was more sexy?
不过被问到与男主角亨利卡维尔谁的身材比较「性感」？
Most practitioners reject the idea of a new science and cavil even at the word futurology.
大多数实践者反对“新科学”的这一想法，甚至对未来学这个词吹毛求疵。
Let us not cavil too much
我们就别太挑剔了。
I don't think this is the time to cavil at the wording of the report.
我觉得现在还不是对报告的措辞较真的时候。
The one cavil I have about the book is that it is written as a diary.
我对这本书挑了一个小毛病&它是以日记方式写的。