spell
spell 英 [spel] 美 [spɛl]
vt. 拼，拼写 n. 符咒；一段时间
进行时:spelling 过去式:spelt 过去分词:spelt 第三人称单数:spells 名词复数:spells
- A spell is a series of words that has magical powers. If you’re under a spell, then what you do is out of your control — your thoughts and actions are dictated by the spell.
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- vt. 拼，拼写
- n. 符咒；一段时间
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1. How do you spell your surname?
你的姓怎么拼？
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2. I've never been able to spell.
我一直不会拼写。
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3. You've spelt my name wrong.
你把我的名字拼错了。
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4. You know what I mean—I'm sure I don't need to spell it out.
你明白我的意思，肯定不需要我解释了。
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5. a spell of warm weather
一段天气温暖的日子
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6. There will be rain at first, with sunny spells later.
开始会有雨，雨后间晴。
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7. I spent a brief spell on the Washington Post.
我曾在《华盛顿邮报》工作过一小段时间。
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8. a book of spells
咒语集
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9. a magic spell
魔咒
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10. The wizard recited a spell.
巫师念了一道咒语。
- spell (n.1) Old English spell "story, saying, tale, history, narrative, fable; discourse, command," from Proto-Germanic *spellam (see spell (v.1)). Compare Old Saxon spel, Old Norse spjall, Old High German spel, Gothic spill "report, discourse, tale, fable, myth;" German Beispiel "example." From c. 1200 as "an utterance, something said, a statement, remark;" meaning "set of words with supposed magical or occult powers, incantation, charm" first recorded 1570s; hence any means or cause of enchantment.
- spell (n.2) 1620s, "a turn of work in place of another," from spell (v.2); compare Old English gespelia "a substitute." Meaning shifted toward "continuous course of work" (1706), probably via notion of shift work (as at sea) where one man or crew regularly "spelled" another. Hence "continuous stretch" of something (weather, etc.), recorded by 1728. Hence also, via the notion in give a spell (1750) "relieve another by taking a turn of work" came the sense "interval of rest or relaxation" (1845), which took the word to a sense opposite what it had at the start.
- spell (v.1) early 14c., "read letter by letter, write or say the letters of;" c. 1400, "form words by means of letters," apparently a French word that merged with or displaced a native Old English one; both are from the same Germanic root, but the French word had evolved a different sense. The native word is Old English spellian "to tell, speak, discourse, talk," from Proto-Germanic *spellam (source also of Old High German spellon "to tell," Old Norse spjalla, Gothic spillon "to talk, tell"), from PIE *spel- (2) "to say aloud, recite."
- spell (v.2) "work in place of (another)," 1590s, earlier spele, from Old English spelian "to take the place of, be substitute for, represent," related to gespelia "substitute," of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to spilian "to play" (see spiel). Related: Spelled; spelling.
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