深圳新航道告诉你“剧透”用英语如何表达！

在英文中，spoil一词有多个含义——

① “破坏/毁掉/糟蹋”，指破坏某事物的美或趣味。

• Our camping trip was spoiled by bad weather.

我们的露营之旅被坏天气毁掉了。

• Don't let him spoil your evening.

别让他毁了你的晚上。

• It's important not to let mistakes spoil your life.

重要的是不要让错误毁了你的生活。

② “娇惯/宠坏”，指过度宠溺/溺爱/宠坏(孩子)，表示到达一种程度。

• 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.

如果你宠坏了孩子，给他们想要或要求的一切，对孩子的性格有不良影响。

• Those children are thoroughly spoiled!

那些小孩完全被宠坏了！

• My grandparents used to spoil me rotten.

我的祖父母以前非常宠我。

✅ spoil someone rotten 把某人宠坏了

③ “变坏/腐败”，把事物搞坏的人或事物，宠坏他人的人或事物，造成（食物等）腐败的东西。

•We all know that fats spoil by becoming rancid.

我们都知道油脂变质后会发臭。

✅ be spoilt for choice 面对众多选择而难以决定取舍

④ “犒赏/犒劳（自己或他人）”。

• Spoil yourself with a new perfume this summer.

今年夏天买瓶新香水慰劳一下自己吧。

• Perhaps I could employ someone to iron his shirts, but I wanted to spoil him. He was my man.

也许我可以雇别人来熨他的衬衫，但我想好好宠他。他是我爱的男人。

• spoiler alert 剧透警告，剧透慎入，剧透一下

• spoil for = to be eager for 一心想某事

• spoiling for a fight 开战，大打出手

• box office 票房

• I don't want to spoil it. 我不想剧透。

• Don't spoil it for me. 别给我剧透。