American English uses the form spoiled as the past tense and past participle. British English uses either spoiled or spoilt. 美國英語中過去式和過去分詞爲 spoiled,英國英語中可用 spoiled 或 spoilt。
1 VERB 弄糟;損壞;破壞 If you
spoil something, you prevent it from being successful or satisfactory.
弄糟;損壞;破壞 2 VERB 溺愛,寵壞(孩子) If you
spoil children, you give them everything they want or ask for. This is considered to have a bad effect on a child's character.
溺愛,寵壞(孩子) 3 VERB 犒賞(自己或他人) If you
spoil yourself or
spoil another person, you give yourself or them something nice as a treat or do something special for them.
犒賞(自己或他人) -
Spoil yourself with a new perfume this summer. [VERB pronoun-reflexive]
今年夏天買瓶新香水慰勞一下自己吧。
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Perhaps I could employ someone to iron his shirts, but I wanted to spoil him. He was my man. [VERB noun]
也許我可以僱别人來熨他的襯衫,但我想好好寵他。他是我愛的男人。
4 V-ERG (使)(食物)變壞;(使)腐壞 If food
spoils or if it
is spoilt, it is no longer fit to be eaten.
(使)(食物)變壞;(使)腐壞 -
We all know that fats spoil by becoming rancid. [VERB]
我們都知道油脂變質後會發臭。
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Some organisms are responsible for spoiling food and cause food poisoning. [VERB noun]
有些生物會導致食物變質並引起食物中毒。
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Some of my apples were spoilt last year by grubs inside the fruit. [VERB noun]
去年我的一些蘋果被果内的蟲子給蛀壞了。
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...the potential health problems from spoiled food. [VERB-ed]
變質食物可能引起的健康問題
5 VERB (因在其上寫違法的内容而)使(選票)無效 If someone
spoils their vote, they write something illegal on their voting paper, usually as a protest about the election, and their vote is not accepted.
(因在其上寫違法的内容而)使(選票)無效 [British] 6 N-PLURAL 戰利品;因成功獲得的好處 The
spoils of something are things that people get as a result of winning a battle or of doing something successfully.
戰利品;因成功獲得的好處 -
True to military tradition, the victors are now treating themselves to the spoils of war.
按照軍事慣例,勝者正在分享戰利品。
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Competing warlords and foreign powers scrambled for political spoils.
相互爭鬥的軍閥及外國列強們正在爭奪政治上的收益。
7 PHRASE 可供選擇的東西衆多 If you say that someone is
spoilt for choice or
spoiled for choice, you mean that they have a great many things of the same type to choose from.
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