spell

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n. 符咒, 魅力, 轮值, 轮班, 工作时间, 一次发作 vt. 拼写, 拼成, 琢磨, 理解, 招致, 轮换, 迷住 vi. 轮换, 拼字

发音

US /spɛl/
AU /spɛl/

词形变化

spells 复数 spells 三单 spelling 现在分词 spelled 过去式 spelled 过去分词 spelt 过去式 spelt 过去分词

释义与例句

n. C1 Oxf 5000
  1. 1.

    Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.

    咒语

    咒文

    He cast a spell to cure warts.

  2. 2.

    A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula.

    under a spell

  3. 3.

    Speech, discourse.

    废旧
  4. 1.

    A definite period (of work or other activity).

    非正式
  5. 2.

    A period of rest; time off.

  6. 3.

    A period of illness, or sudden interval of bad spirits, disease etc.

    美国 非正式
  7. 4.

    An uninterrupted series of alternate overs bowled by a single bowler.

    体育 游戏
  8. 5.

    An indefinite period of time (usually with a qualifier); by extension, a relatively short distance.

    阵

    非正式
  9. 6.

    A shift (of work); (rare) a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour.

  10. 1.

    A splinter, usually of wood; a spelk.

  11. 2.

    The wooden bat in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell.

v. A1 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.

    1697, John Dryden (translator), Georgics, Book 3 in The Works of Virgil, London: Jacob Tonson, p. 109, lines 444-446, This, gather’d in the Planetary Hour, With noxious Weeds, and spell’d with Words of pow’r Dire Stepdames in the Magick Bowl infuse;

  2. 1.

    To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word.

    拼

    拼写

    拼字

    串

    不及物 及物

    I find it difficult to spell because I'm dyslexic.

  3. 2.

    To read (something) as though letter by letter; to peruse slowly or with effort.

    废旧 及物
  4. 3.

    To clarify; to explain in detail.

    比喻 及物

    Please spell it out for me.

  5. 4.

    To indicate that (some event) will occur; typically followed by a single-word noun.

    及物

    This spells trouble.

  6. 5.

    To constitute; to measure.

  7. 6.

    Of letters: to compose (a word).

    拼

    拼字

    及物

    The letters “a”, “n” and “d” spell “and”.

  8. 7.

    To speak, to declaim.

    废旧
  9. 8.

    To tell; to relate; to teach.

    废旧

    1770, Thomas Warton, “Ode on the Approach of Summer” in A Collection of Poems in Four Volumes, London: G. Pearch, Volume 1, p. 278, As thro’ the caverns dim I wind, Might I that legend find, By fairies spelt in mystic rhymes,

  10. 9.

    To notate or indicate a pitch, interval, or chord using a particular enharmonic spelling.

    音乐

    The note D♭ is spelled differently from C♯, even though they sound equivalent.

    The way you spell a chord reflects its harmonic function.

    A dominant seventh chord is spelled with a diminished seventh interval, not a major sixth.

  11. 1.

    To work in place of (someone).

    及物

    to spell the helmsman

  12. 2.

    To rest (someone or something), to give someone or something a rest or break.

    及物

    They spelled the horses and rested in the shade of some trees near a brook.

  13. 3.

    To rest from work for a time.

    非正式 不及物

词汇关系

名词

同义词 10

go while turn piece tour charm patch trance enchantment magic spell

上位词 5

time language speech shift work shift

下位词 10

curse snap possession jinx fascination hex incantation hocus-pocus whammy captivation
动词

同义词 3

write import spell out

反义词 1

unspell

上位词 10

mean write witch intend relieve alternate recite jinx glamour takeover

下位词 4

misspell hyphen hyphenate spell out

相关短语

spell checker 拼写检查程序 [计] 拼写检查程序 spell check [计] 拼写检查 spell out 讲清楚, 清楚地说明 spell checkers spell off spell offs spell work spell it out spell things out spell doom spell checks spell checking spell checked spell one's name spell someone's name

词源

From Middle English spell, spel, from Old English spell (“news, story”), from Proto-Germanic *spellą (“speech, account, tale”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- (“to tell”) or from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to speak, to sound”) with the s-mobile prefix. Cognate with dialectal German Spill, Icelandic spjall (“discussion, talk”), spjalla (“to discuss, to talk”), guðspjall (“gospel”) and Albanian fjalë (“word”).

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