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 spill [spil]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 溢出, 溅出, 摔下, 溢出量, 木片, 小塞子

vt. 使溢出, 使散落, 洒, 使流出, 倒出, 使摔下

vi. 溢出, 涌流, 摔下

[医] 溢出, 流出




    spill
    spilt
    [ noun ]
    1. liquid that is spilled

    2. <noun.substance>
      clean up the spills
    3. a channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstruction

    4. <noun.artifact>
    5. the act of allowing a fluid to escape

    6. <noun.act>
    7. a sudden drop from an upright position

    8. <noun.act>
      he had a nasty spill on the ice
    [ verb ]
    1. cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container

    2. <verb.contact> slop splatter
      spill the milk
      splatter water
    3. flow, run or fall out and become lost

    4. <verb.motion>
      run out
      The milk spilled across the floor
      The wine spilled onto the table
    5. cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over

    6. <verb.contact>
      disgorge shed
      spill the beans all over the table
    7. pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities

    8. <verb.contact>
      pour forth shed
      shed tears
      spill blood
      God shed His grace on Thee
    9. reveal information

    10. <verb.communication>
      talk
      If you don't oblige me, I'll talk!
      The former employee spilled all the details
    11. reduce the pressure of wind on (a sail)

    12. <verb.change>


    Spill \Spill\, n. [[root]170. Cf. {Spell} a splinter.]
    1. A bit of wood split off; a splinter. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

    2. A slender piece of anything. Specifically:
    (a) A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a
    spile.
    (b) A metallic rod or pin.
    (c) A small roll of paper, or slip of wood, used as a
    lamplighter, etc.
    (d) (Mining) One of the thick laths or poles driven
    horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing
    a level in loose ground.

    3. A little sum of money. [Obs.] --Ayliffe.

    3. An instance of spilling.

    {Oil spill}, an accidental release of oil, usually into the
    ocean, due to damage to an oil tanker or uncontrolled
    release from an underwater well.


    Spill \Spill\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spilt}; p. pr. & vb. n.
    {Spilling}.]
    To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal,
    ivory, etc.; to inlay. [Obs.] --Spenser.


    Spill \Spill\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spilled}, or {Spilt}; p. pr.
    & vb. n. {Spilling}.] [OE. spillen,sually, to destroy, AS.
    spillan, spildan, to destroy; akin to Icel. spilla to
    destroy, Sw. spilla to spill, Dan. spilde, G. & D. spillen to
    squander, OHG. spildan.]
    1. To destroy; to kill; to put an end to. [Obs.]

    And gave him to the queen, all at her will
    To choose whether she would him save or spill.
    --Chaucer.

    Greater glory think [it] to save than spill.
    --Spenser.

    2. To mar; to injure; to deface; hence, to destroy by misuse;
    to waste. [Obs.]

    They [the colors] disfigure the stuff and spill the
    whole workmanship. --Puttenham.

    Spill not the morning, the quintessence of day, in
    recreations. --Fuller.

    3. To suffer to fall or run out of a vessel; to lose, or
    suffer to be scattered; -- applied to fluids and to
    substances whose particles are small and loose; as, to
    spill water from a pail; to spill quicksilver from a
    vessel; to spill powder from a paper; to spill sand or
    flour.

    Note: Spill differs from pour in expressing accidental loss,
    -- a loss or waste contrary to purpose.

    4. To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed, or
    suffer to be shed, as in battle or in manslaughter; as, a
    man spills another's blood, or his own blood.

    And to revenge his blood so justly spilt. --Dryden.

    5. (Naut.) To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind,
    so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to
    lessen the strain.

    {Spilling line} (Naut.), a rope used for spilling, or
    dislodging, the wind from the belly of a sail. --Totten.


    Spill \Spill\, v. i.
    1. To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to
    perish; to waste. [Obs.]

    That thou wilt suffer innocents to spill. --Chaucer.

    2. To be shed; to run over; to fall out, and be lost or
    wasted. ``He was so topful of himself, that he let it
    spill on all the company.'' --I. Watts.

    1. The nation's largest oil company fired the tanker's skipper after saying tests showed he was legally drunk but faced a torrent of criticism for its slow reaction to the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
    2. However, the cyanide wasn't the only threat from the spill.
    3. Ballard Shipping also said it will make available $500,000 for settlements with individuals who were financially hurt by the spill.
    4. A Coast Guard officer who spoke on condition of anonymity said Friday that state officials were naive or uninformed if they believed a spill as large as the one in Prince William Sound could be cleaned up quickly.
    5. Thirteen months later and 3,200 miles away, the Valdez oil spill again will wash over the nation's largest oil company Wednesday as shareholders consider six environmental proposals seeking to make Exxon Corp. more ecologically responsive.
    6. Prosser blamed human error for the spill.
    7. "Usually isolated locations were disturbed by aircraft and people" while "noise pollution" on marine band radios from spill cleanup activities made monitoring marine channels difficult and unpleasant, the report stated.
    8. "The Department of Conservation is asking for a 48-hour cleanup capability for a much larger minimum spill of at least 250,000 barrels," the size of the Exxon Valdez disaster, said Dietrick.
    9. There have been conflicting studies on whether the Alaska spill would have been significantly reduced if the Exxon Valdez had a double hull.
    10. Worries that the Air France strike would spill over into other areas of the public sector were compounded by growing doubts over the leadership of Mr Edouard Balladur, the Conservative prime minister.
    11. He said the spill was triggered by a "chain of events" that the company is still investigating.
    12. Superior Judge Karl Johnstone said Tuesday that all evidence gathered in the investigation except for Hazelwood's report will be admissible at his trial for the March 24 grounding of the tanker and the spill of about 11 million gallons of crude oil.
    13. But the price hikes already were in the works before the spill because of a complicated series of production and market factors, Attorney General Ken Eikenberry said Wednesday.
    14. Exxon said it spent more than $1 billion on oil spill claims and cleanup work, and state officials say the cleanup, suspended for the winter, is unfinished.
    15. You're caught with them, their dirt is going to spill over on you and I'm going to send you to the penitentiary.
    16. DiBona also downplayed the effects of the spill on fish and birds in the area.
    17. The funds of which Davis is a trustee and the pension funds of New York City and Massachusetts had sought assurances from Exxon that it would improve safety procedures following the Exxon Valdez oil spill off Alaska last year.
    18. Exxon was warned by the U.S. and Alaska that they are willing to go to trial to resolve criminal and civil claims from the 1989 Valdez spill.
    19. Exxon's prime contractor on cleaning up the nation's worst oil spill estimates the petroleum giant will end up spending $2 billion on the job, nearly twice as much as estimated in July.
    20. We've got to do everything we can to have a plan that is based not on a third of the spill, but on the totality of this spill in terms of _ in terms of recovery.
    21. We've got to do everything we can to have a plan that is based not on a third of the spill, but on the totality of this spill in terms of _ in terms of recovery.
    22. A federal grand jury in Alaska handed up a five-count criminal indictment against Exxon on Tuesday in the 10-million-gallon spill by the tanker Exxon Valdez in Alaska's Prince William Sound on March 24.
    23. The research agency said it was only after the collapse of an Ashland tank that EPA found faults with the company's spill prevention plan.
    24. A federal grand jury in Alaska is considering a five-count criminal indictment against Exxon Corp. stemming from last spring's oil spill in Prince William Sound, a government official said today.
    25. A large oil spill or political upset in the Middle East could throw out all the clever calculations.
    26. The tanker rammed jagged Bligh Reef, gashing its hull and spewing nearly 11 million gallons of Alaska crude oil in a spill which devastated fisheries, wildlife and the scenic shores of Prince William Sound.
    27. Although Iraq denies it orchestrated the spill, the U.S. military is convinced Saddam Hussein is responsible.
    28. Those numbers exclude special items such as the $800 million charge relating to the company's oil spill cleanup operation in Alaskan waters.
    29. A Coast Guard inspection Monday revealed potential navigational problems from pieces of steel partially torn loose during the vessel's voyage from Alaska, where the Valdez was involved in the nation's worst oil spill.
    30. Despite protests by Alaskan officials, Exxon Corp. has already begun laying off workers and demobilizing equipment in preparation for halting oil spill cleanup operations in Alaska by mid-month.
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