搜尋結果
spoil
- IPA[spoil]
美式
- diminish or destroy the value or quality of;prevent someone from enjoying (an occasion or event)
- goods stolen or taken forcibly from a person or place;waste material brought up during the course of an excavation or a dredging or mining operation.
verb: spoil, 3rd person present: spoils, gerund or present participle: spoiling, past tense: spoilt, past participle: spoilt
noun: spoil, plural noun: spoils
- 釋義
動詞
- 1. diminish or destroy the value or quality of I wouldn't want to spoil your fun a series of political blunders spoiled their chances of being re-elected 同義詞 反義詞
- ▪ prevent someone from enjoying (an occasion or event) she was afraid of spoiling Christmas for the rest of the family 同義詞 反義詞
- ▪ British mark (a ballot paper) incorrectly so as to make one's vote invalid, especially as a gesture of protest the group called on its supporters to spoil their papers
- ▪ (of food) become unfit for eating I've got some ham that'll spoil if we don't eat it tonight 同義詞 反義詞
- 2. harm the character of (someone, especially a child) by being too lenient or indulgent the last thing I want to do is spoil Thomas 同義詞 反義詞
- ▪ treat with great or excessive kindness, consideration, or generosity breakfast in bed—you're spoiling me!
- 3. be extremely or aggressively eager for Cooper was spoiling for a fight
- 4. archaic rob (a person or a place) of goods or possessions by force or violence the enemy entered into Hereford, spoiled and fired the city, and razed the walls to the ground
名詞
- 1. goods stolen or taken forcibly from a person or place the looters carried their spoils away
- 2. waste material brought up during the course of an excavation or a dredging or mining operation.