| 单词 | spell |
| 释义 | spell I. 1. a. obsolete b. < cause death by muttering spells over the young shoots of a certain tree — W.D.Wallis > c. < it was the voice that cracked the spell — that pleasant, homely, wheedling voice which brought with it daylight and common sense — John Buchan > 2. < even … enemies were unable to resist the spell of his presence — Alvin Redman > < writing under the spell of the slavery controversy — R.A.Billington > II. < used witchcraft all these years to spell the ladies — Ray Bradbury > III. transitive verb 1. < yourselves may spell it yet in chronicles — Robert Browning > — often used with out < laboriously spell out a newspaper — Time > 2. a. < spell out a God in the works of creation — Robert Southey > b. < found it hard to spell out his meaning > c. < she spelt over the names of the guests at the houses — George Meredith > 3. a. < spelled the word correctly > < spelled the word incorrectly with two e's > : write or print in order the letters of < the two writers spell the word in two different ways > b. < what word do these letters spell > < put the cards through a decoding machine to find out that the holes spelled “order now” — F.W.Boardman > 4. < sensitiveness without impulse spells decadence — A.N.Whitehead > < crop failure was likely to spell stark famine — Stringfellow Barr > intransitive verb 1. < writes well, but spells badly > < spelled with difficulty on his fingers — Helen Keller > 2. < never saw anybody in my life spell harder for an invitation — Jane Austen > IV. 1. dialect chiefly Britain 2. dialect chiefly England 3. 4. V. transitive verb 1. < four-carrier teams spell each other every 15 minutes — National Geographic > < he and the other assistant stage managers spelled each other — Mary McCarthy > 2. < it was midday, and we squatted there, spelling the camels — I.L.Idriess > 3. Australia intransitive verb 1. < she had learned to spell at the oars and help in the camp work — Arthur Mayse > 2. VI. 1. a. archaic b. < as this work has to be done standing, it is generally shared between the assistants in spells lasting perhaps three hours — Choice of Careers: — Librarianship > 2. a. < a spell of clerking … during his teens — Jerome Ellison > < a spell of service in the tropics — D.W.Brogan > < became involved in a gambling scandal and did a spell in prison — Times Literary Supplement > b. chiefly Australia < the tired musterers sitting down … and having a ten minutes' spell and half a pipe — Mary S. Broome > < the motor bike was getting a spell — F.S.Anthony > 3. a. < mark time for a spell — English Digest > < a long spell when he appeared to be petering out — A.M.Mizener > b. < a spell of rain > < a long cold spell > 4. < take me some time to get her to her room if she has one of her weak spells — Robertson Davies > < you mustn't excite yourself … you've had a bad spell — Berton Roueché > : a seizure of some specified sickness or symptom : attack < a spell of dizziness, like a cough, is then a danger sign — Morris Fishbein > < prolonged coughing spells — H.G.Armstrong > • - by spells |
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