词组 | spit |
释义 | spit The common verb spit has as its past tense and past participle either spat or spit. The British prefer spat, but both forms are widespread in American English: • I spit the beer out, and with it came a long, thin brown roach —Dennis Smith, Report from Engine Co. 82, 1972 • ... the Jamaican mountains that were spit from the sea —Caleb Pirtle III, Southern Living, November 1971 • A computer spat out this list in June —Fortune, 1 Sept. 1981 • ... I'd have thought she'd inwardly cursed or spat — Kenneth Roberts, Oliver Wiswell, 1940 Nonstandard variants are spitted and spitten: • ... like someone had spitten tobacco into it —Dave Godfrey, in Canadian Short Stories, Second Series, ed. Robert Weaver, 1968 • In the helicopter one of [them] spitted in this lieutenant's face —Richard J. Ford III, quoted in Wallace Terry, Bloods, 1984 The unrelated verb spit meaning "to skewer or impale on a spit" consistently becomes spitted in the past tense and past participle: • Juma cooked the birds spitted on a stick —Ernest Hemingway, "An African Betrayal," in Sports Illustrated, 5 May 1986 • The lamb ... is spitted off to the side of the fire and turned regularly —Ann Ingerson, New England Farmer, April 1984 |
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