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1. Oxford Dictionary

   spoil

   • IPA[spɔɪl]

   英式

   • v.
     diminish or destroy the value or quality of；prevent someone from enjoying (an occasion or event)
   • n.
     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

2. • 釋義
   • 相關詞
   • 片語

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. diminish or destroy the value or quality of I wouldn't want to spoil your fun a series of political blunders spoilt their chances of being re-elected 同義詞 mar, damage, impair, blemish, disfigure, ... 更多blight, flaw, deface, scar, injure, harm, ruin, destroy, wreck, be a blot on the landscape, raredisfeature反義詞 improve, enhance
   • ▪ prevent someone from enjoying (an occasion or event) she was afraid of spoiling Christmas for the rest of the family 同義詞 ruin, wreck, destroy, upset, undo, ... 更多mess up, make a mess of, dash, sabotage, scupper, scotch, torpedo, blast, vitiate, cast a shadow over, cast a pall over, cloud, darken, take the shine off, put a damper on, take the enjoyment/pleasure out of, take the edge off, upset someone's apple cart, cook someone's goose, informalfoul up, louse up, muck up, queer, screw up, put the kibosh on, banjax, blow a hole in, do for, nix, cock up, dish, muller, queer someone's pitch, throw a spanner in the works of, rain on someone's parade, throw a monkey wrench in the works of, cruel, euchre, vulgar slangfuck up, bugger up, balls up, archaicbring to naught反義詞 further, help, enhance
   • ▪ 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 go bad, go off, go rancid, turn, go sour, ... 更多sour, go mouldy, moulder, become addled, curdle, become rotten, rot, perish, decompose, decay, putrefy反義詞 keep
   • 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 overindulge, pamper, indulge, mollycoddle, cosset, ... 更多coddle, baby, spoon-feed, wait on hand and foot, cater to someone's every whim, overparent, kill with kindness, nanny, nursemaid, dote on, wrap in cotton wool, feather-bed, archaiccocker反義詞 neglect, treat harshly, be strict with
   • ▪ 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

   n.

   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 colliery spoil

   spoils system

   • n.
     the practice of a successful political party giving public office to its supporters.

   Oxford American Dictionary

   spoils system

   • n.
     the practice of a successful political party giving public office to its supporters.

   Oxford Dictionary

   too many cooks spoil the broth

   • ph.
     if too many people are involved in a task or activity, it will not be done well

   Oxford Dictionary

   too many cooks spoil the broth

   • ph.
     if too many people are involved in a task, it will not be done well

   Oxford American Dictionary

   spare the rod and spoil the child

   • ph.
     if children are not physically punished when they do wrong their personal development will suffer

   Oxford American Dictionary

   spare the rod and spoil the child

   • ph.
     if children are not physically punished when they do wrong their personal development will suffer

   Oxford Dictionary

   don't spoil the ship for a ha'p'orth of tar

   • ph.
     don't risk the failure of a large project by trying to economize on trivial things

   Oxford American Dictionary

   don't spoil the ship for a ha'p'orth of tar

   • ph.
     don't risk the failure of a large project by trying to economize on trivial things

   Oxford Dictionary

   片語

   • be spoilt for choice
3. • 更多解釋

   spoil

   • IPA[spoil]

   美式

   • v.
     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
   • n.
     goods stolen or taken forcibly from a person or place: the looters carried their spoils away

   Oxford American Dictionary