American English uses the form spoiled as the past tense and past participle. British English uses either spoiled or spoilt. 美国英语中过去式和过去分词为 spoiled,英国英语中可用 spoiled 或 spoilt。
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[VERB 动词]弄糟;损坏;破坏 If you
spoil something, you prevent it from being successful or satisfactory.
2
[VERB 动词]溺爱,宠坏(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.
3
[VERB 动词]犒赏(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.
Spoil yourself with a new perfume this summer...
今年夏天买瓶新香水慰劳一下自己吧。
Perhaps I could employ someone to iron his shirts, but I wanted to spoil him. He was my man.
也许我可以雇别人来熨他的衬衫,但我想好好宠他。他是我爱的男人。
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[V-ERG 及物/不及物动词](使)(食物)变坏;(使)腐坏 If food
spoils or if it
is spoilt, it is no longer fit to be eaten.
We all know that fats spoil by becoming rancid...
我们都知道油脂变质后会发臭。
Some organisms are responsible for spoiling food and cause food poisoning...
有些生物会导致食物变质并引起食物中毒。
Some of my apples were spoilt last year by grubs inside the fruit.
去年我的一些苹果被果内的虫子给蛀坏了。
...the potential health problems from spoiled food.
变质食物可能引起的健康问题
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[VERB 动词](因在其上写违法的内容而)使(选票)无效 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.
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[N-PLURAL 复数名词]战利品;因成功获得的好处 The
spoils of something are things that people get as a result of winning a battle or of doing something successfully.
True to military tradition, the victors are now treating themselves to the spoils of war...
按照军事惯例,胜者正在分享战利品。
Competing warlords and foreign powers scrambled for political spoils.
相互争斗的军阀及外国列强们正在争夺政治上的收益。
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[PHRASE 短语]可供选择的东西众多 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.