词组 | spill |
释义 | spill In American English the usual past tense and past participle of spill is spilled: • Gasoline lines spilled onto freeways —N. Y. Times, 12 May 1979 • ... could sop up 1,000 barrels of spilled oil —Dun's, October 1971 The variant spilt is common in British English, especially as the past participle: • ... too much blood has been spilt —Times Literary Supp., 28 May 1971 • Far more American blood has been spilt in Asia — Alistair Buchan, The Listener, 13 Dec. 1973 When the past participle is used as an attributive adjective (as in the proverb, "There's no use crying over spilt milk"), spilt also occurs occasionally in American English: • ... began wondering where all the spilt oil went — Warren R. Young, Smithsonian, November 1970 |
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