SPOIL

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Traducere în limba română

spoil I. substantiv

1. (adesea pl.) pradă;

the spoils of war pradă de război; trofeu.

2. premiu (obţinut la un concurs sau pentru merite deosebite în muncă).

3. pl. (amer.) distribuirea posturilor în stat între partizanii partidului la putere.

4. (constr.) pământ extras prin săpare; dragare; excavaţie.

5. (mine) rocă sterilă, gangă.

6. (fig.) câştig, comoară, tezaur;

the literary spoils of Scotland comorile literaturii scoţiene.

7. (înv.) stricăciune, pagubă.

spoil II. past şi part. tr. spoilt verb A. tranzitiv

1. a prăda, a jefui.

2. a strica, a deteriora (un obiect); a ruina; a strica (o plăcere).

3. a râzgâia; a strica caracterul (cuiva) prin răsfăţ / indulgenţă etc.

4. (sl.) a mutila, a schilodi; a omorî.

spoil II. past şi part. tr. spoilt verb B. intranzitiv

1. a jefui, a prăda, a se deda la jaf / pradă.

2. (despre alimente etc.) a se strica, a se altera.

3. to be spoiling for a dori foarte mult, a se prăpădi după;

to be spoiling for a fight a fi gata de bătaie, a căuta pricină.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

I wanted you to see her, but they have spoiled her entirely.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

What a pity to spoil it!

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Everyone who knows me, spoils me, I believe,” she answered, smiling.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

“Who are you to spoil sport?”

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That is the way to spoil them.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

Brissenden had spoiled him for steam beer, he concluded, and wondered if, after all, the books had spoiled him for companionship with these friends of his youth.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

I am never hungry, he said, and it is a lucky thing I am not, for my mouth is only painted, and if I should cut a hole in it so I could eat, the straw I am stuffed with would come out, and that would spoil the shape of my head.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

I'm afraid Laurie will be quite spoiled among them.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Little Em'ly was spoiled by them all, in fact; and by no one more than Mr. Peggotty himself, whom she could have coaxed into anything, by only going and laying her cheek against his rough whisker.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I forgot it, but I want it done though it will spoil my looks.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

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