| 词组 | spoil, spoiled, spoilt |
| 释义 | spoil, spoiled, spoilt In American English spoiled is usual for both verbal and adjectival use, although we have some evidence for spoilt as an adjective. In British English both spoiled and spoilt are used. Longman 1988 says spoilt and spoiled are equally common in British use, but our files show more British evidence for spoilt than for spoiled. • ... so spoiled that we never knew how to leave — David Halberstam, New Times, 16 May 1975 • ... spoiled rotten and considerably less than innocent —Newgate Callendar, N. Y. Times Book Rev., 6 Feb. 1983 • ... behave like a spoilt hysteric —Time, 5 Mar. 1984 • ... spoiled Notre Dame's unbeaten season —Oxford Companion to Sports and Games, ed. John Arlott, 1975 • This comedy, although it is spoilt in places by some childish farce —James Sutherland, English Literature of the Late Seventeenth Century, 1969 • You have hitherto been a spoiled child —William Hazlitt, letter, March 1822 • ... a crowd of spoilt, ungrateful children —Ann Lovell, Annabel, June 1974 • ... grew up into a stuttering, spoilt brat —Harold Beaver, Times Literary Supp., 4 July 1980 |
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