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VERB
弄糟;損壞;破壞
If you spoil something, you prevent it from being successful or satisfactory.
例句
It's important not to let mistakes spoil your life...
重要的是不要讓錯誤毀了你的生活。
Peaceful summer evenings can be spoilt by mosquitoes.
寧靜的夏夜可能會被蚊子破壞掉。
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VERB
溺愛，寵壞(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.
例句
Grandparents are often tempted to spoil their grandchildren whenever they come to visit.
祖父母每次來訪都往往禁不住要嬌慣孫輩。
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VERB
犒賞（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.
例句
Spoil yourself with a new perfume this summer...
今年夏天買瓶新香水慰勞一下自己吧。
Perhaps I could employ someone to iron his shirts, but I wanted to spoil him. He was my man.
也許我可以雇別人來熨他的襯衫，但我想好好寵他。他是我愛的男人。
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V-ERG
（使）(食物)變壞;(使)腐壞
If food spoils or if it is spoilt, it is no longer fit to be eaten.
例句
We all know that fats spoil by becoming rancid...
我們都知道油脂變質后會發臭。
Some organisms are responsible for spoiling food and cause food poisoning...
有些生物會導致食物變質并引起食物中毒。
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VERB
(因在其上寫違法的內容而)使(選票)無效
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.
例句
They had broadcast calls for voters to spoil their ballot papers...
他們通過廣播呼吁選民們投無效選票。
The results showed that 7.2% of the voters cast blank or spoiled ballots.
結果顯示，7.2 %的選民投了空白或無效票。
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N-PLURAL
戰利品;因成功獲得的好處
The spoils of something are things that people get as a result of winning a battle or of doing something successfully.
例句
True to military tradition, the victors are now treating themselves to the spoils of war...
按照軍事慣例，勝者正在分享戰利品。
Competing warlords and foreign powers scrambled for political spoils.
相互爭斗的軍閥及外國列強們正在爭奪政治上的收益。
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PHRASE
可供選擇的東西眾多
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.
例句
At lunchtime, MPs are spoilt for choice in 26 restaurants and bars.
到了午餐時間，議員們有 26 家之多的餐廳和酒吧可供選擇。