Reader's Digest 12月/1月合併号の記事 "How To Quiet the Family Complainer" からの引用です。
Some complainers will switch gears if you shift the conversation in a direction that interests them. If your neighbor is fussing over the phone company, tell her about an unexpected call you received from an old friend. If your coworker is bellyaching about your boss, ask whether he met the new employee.
"bellyaching" は文脈からすると、"complain" と同義の様です。腹が痛くなる程の苦情でしょうか？ 辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Complain noisily or persistently.: heads of departments bellyaching about lack of resources
・Collins Dictionary: If you say that someone is bellyaching, you mean they complain loudly and frequently about something and you think this is unreasonable or unjustified.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: to complain: Stop bellyaching and just get on with the job.
Some complainers will switch gears if you shift the conversation in a direction that interests them. If your neighbor is fussing over the phone company, tell her about an unexpected call you received from an old friend. If your coworker is bellyaching about your boss, ask whether he met the new employee.
"bellyaching" は文脈からすると、"complain" と同義の様です。腹が痛くなる程の苦情でしょうか？ 辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Complain noisily or persistently.: heads of departments bellyaching about lack of resources
・Collins Dictionary: If you say that someone is bellyaching, you mean they complain loudly and frequently about something and you think this is unreasonable or unjustified.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: to complain: Stop bellyaching and just get on with the job.
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