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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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