Word · Frequency #4282
spoil
战利品；掠夺物
Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
- 1.
Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
从敌人或受害者那里掠夺来的财物。
- 2.
Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings. Such material could be utilised somewhere else.
挖掘、采矿或疏浚过程中清除的物质(如岩石或泥土)。尾矿。此类材料可用于他处。
弃土；废石；尾矿；从敌人或受害者那里掠夺来的财物。；挖掘、采矿或疏浚过程中清除的物质(如岩石或泥土)。尾矿。此类材料可用于他处。；战利品；赃物
In use
After the battle, the soldiers shared the spoils among themselves.
The workers removed the spoil from the excavation and loaded it onto trucks.
We can use the spoil from the tunnel to fill the low area in the garden.
Connections
Collocations
- spoils of war
- 战利品
- The general forbade his troops from taking spoils of war.将军禁止他的部队拿取战利品。
- spoils of victory
- 胜利果实；胜利战利品
- The champions enjoyed the spoils of victory.冠军们尽情享受胜利果实。
- share the spoils
- 分赃；分享战利品
- The robbers gathered to share the spoils.强盗们聚在一起分赃。
- the spoils system
- 政党分赃制；政治分肥制度
- The spoils system rewarded loyal supporters with public offices.政党分赃制以公职犒赏忠心支持者。
- spoil heap
- 废石堆；弃土堆
- The mine's spoil heap towered over the village.矿场的废石堆高耸于村庄之上。
Idioms & figurative uses
Learner notes
Memory Tip
把 spoil 记成‘战利品小丘’：胜利者把抢来的财物堆成堆（spoils of war），矿工挖出的废石也堆成另一堆——同一词，两堆都是 spoil。
Context & Register
语域：mixed 常见场景：historical writing or war fiction、mining and construction documents 作为名词的 spoil 有两种常见用法：表示“战利品/掠夺物”时多用于历史、战争或文学语体，较正式；表示“开挖、采矿或疏浚产生的弃土/尾矿”时属于工程、矿业等专业技术语境，比较中性。实际使用中通常根据搭配和场景选择。
Pronunciation & Spelling
All six words rhyme with 'spoil' and share the spelling chunk 'oil'. Watch out for 'spool' (/spuːl/), which looks similar but has a different vowel sound.
High-value vocabulary
该词属于 Oxford 核心词汇，值得优先掌握常见搭配和句型。
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 2，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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