勾心斗角的英文：
[Literal Meaning]
hook/heart/oppose/eave
a delicate and complicated palatial architectural structure

[解释]
原指宫室建筑结构的交错和精巧。后比喻用尽心思争斗。

[Explanation]
to confront and intrigue against each other and get locked in strife

[例子]
销售部门里的工作人员整天勾心斗角，经理也没有什么办法。

[Example]
The staff in the sales department have always intrigued against each other and the manager cannot do anything about it.

Scheme against each other
勾心斗角

To scheme against each other.
彼此勾心斗角

The royal palace was filled with intrigue.
皇宫中充满了勾心斗角。

The reactionary ruling clique is torn by internal strife.
反动统治集团内部勾心斗角，四分五裂。

Among themselves at Olympus they intrigued and scrambled for supremacy
在奥林匹斯山上，他们之间也勾心斗角，争权夺利

Politicians contend, and men are swerved this way and that by conflicting tides of interest and passion…
政客们勾心斗角，世人被利欲在狂澜冲得头昏眼花……