spill
verb🔊/spɪl/
🔊/spɪl/
Verb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they spill | 🔊/spɪl/ 🔊/spɪl/ |
| he / she / it spills | 🔊/spɪlz/ 🔊/spɪlz/ |
| past simple spilled | 🔊/spɪld/ 🔊/spɪld/ |
| past participle spilled | 🔊/spɪld/ 🔊/spɪld/ |
| past simple spilt | 🔊/spɪlt/ 🔊/spɪlt/ |
| past participle spilt | 🔊/spɪlt/ 🔊/spɪlt/ |
| -ing form spilling | 🔊/ˈspɪlɪŋ/ 🔊/ˈspɪlɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive]
(especially of liquid 尤指液体 to flow over the edge of a container by accident; to make liquid do this （使）洒出，泼出，溢出 Water had spilled out of the bucket onto the floor. 桶里的水洒出来了，洒了一地。 🔊🔊 The bag split, and sugar spilled everywhere. 袋子裂开了，糖洒得到处都是。 - (figurative)
Light spilled from the windows. 灯光从窗口照射出来。 🔊🔊 - (figurative)
He opened the curtains, letting the morning light spill into the room. 他拉开窗帘，让晨光洒进房间里。 - spill something
He startled her and made her spill her drink. 她让他吓了一跳，把饮料弄洒了。 🔊🔊 Thousands of gallons of crude oil were spilled into the ocean. 成千上万加仑的原油泄漏，流进了海洋。 🔊🔊 I managed to carry three full glasses without spilling a drop. 我设法携带了三个完整的眼镜，没有掉落一滴。 I accidentally spilled my drink all over him. 我不小心把饮料洒了他一身。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- almost
- accidentally
- out
- …
- try not to
- let something
- across
- down
- from
- …
- [intransitive] + adv./prep.
(of people 人 to come out of a place in large numbers and spread out 涌出；蜂拥而出 The doors opened and people spilled into the street. 门开了，人们涌上街道。 🔊🔊 After the clubs closed, the drinkers spilled out into the streets. 俱乐部打烊后，酒客们涌到大街上。
Word Originverb Old English spillan ‘kill, destroy, waste, shed (blood)’; of unknown origin.
Idioms
cry over spilt milk (British English)
(US English cry over spilled milk)
spill the beans
- (informal)
to tell somebody something that should be kept secret or private 泄露秘密；说漏嘴
spill (somebody’s) blood
- (formal or literary)
to kill or wound somebody 使流血；伤害；杀死 Nothing can justify spilling innocent blood. 无论任何理由残害无辜都是不正当的。
spill your guts (to somebody)
- (North American English, informal)
to tell somebody everything you know or feel about something, because you are upset （向某人）倾诉心里话 He has spilled his guts in his new autobiography. 他在自己的新自传中冒失了胆量。