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。
- VERB 弄糟;损坏;破坏
If you spoil something, you prevent it from being successful or satisfactory.
- It's important not to let mistakes spoil your life...
重要的是不要让错误毁了你的生活。 - Peaceful summer evenings can be spoilt by mosquitoes.
宁静的夏夜可能会被蚊子破坏掉。
- VERB 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.
- Grandparents are often tempted to spoil their grandchildren whenever they come to visit.
祖父母每次来访都往往禁不住要娇惯孙辈。
- VERB 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。
- V-ERG (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
- VERB (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.
- They had broadcast calls for voters to spoil their ballot papers...
他们通过广播呼吁选民们投无效选票。 - The results showed that 7.2% of the voters cast blank or spoiled ballots.
结果显示,7.2 %的选民投了空白或无效票。
- N-PLURAL 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。
- PHRASE 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.
- At lunchtime, MPs are spoilt for choice in 26 restaurants and bars.
到了午餐时间,议员们有 26 家之多的餐厅和酒吧可供选择。