1.[t]~ sth用字母拼；拼写to say or write the letters of a word in the correct order
How do you spell your surname?你的姓怎么拼？
I thought her name was Catherine, but it's Kathryn spelt with a ‘K’.我原以为她叫 Catherine，其实是 Kathryn，以 K 开头。
2.[i][t]拼出，会拼（单词）to form words correctly from individual letters
I've never been able to spell.我一直不会拼写。
You've spelt my name wrong.你把我的名字拼错了。
3.[t]~ sth拼作；拼成to form words when they are put together in a particular order
C─A─T spells ‘cat’.C─A─T 拼作 cat。
4.[t]~ sth (for sb/sth)招致，意味着（通常指坏事）to have sth, usually sth bad, as a result; to mean sth, usually sth bad
The crop failure spelt disaster for many farmers.对许多农民来说，庄稼歉收就意味着灾难。
5.[t](informal)~ sb（短时间）替换，顶替to replace for a short time sb who is doing a particular activity so that they can rest
Carter will be here in an hour to spell you.卡特一小时后过来替换你。
1.[c]（持续的）一段时间a short period of time during which sth lasts
a spell of warm weather一段天气温暖的日子
a cold/hot/wet/bright, etc. spell一段寒冷、炎热、多雨、晴朗等的日子
There will be rain at first, with sunny spells later.开始会有雨，雨后间晴。
She went to the doctor complaining of dizzy spells .她去找医生看病，说自己一阵一阵地头昏。
2.[c]（干某事或在某处工作的）一段时间a period of time doing sth or working somewhere
She had a spell as a singer before becoming an actress.在当演员以前她唱过一阵子歌。
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。
3.[c]咒语；符咒；魔法words that are thought to have magic power or to make a piece of magic work; a piece of magic that happens when sb says these magic words
a magic spell魔咒
a book of spells咒语集
The wizard recited a spell.巫师念了一道咒语。
to cast/put a spell on sb对某人施魔法
to be under a spell(= affected by magic)中了魔法
4.[sing]魅力；魔力a quality that a person or thing has that makes them so attractive or interesting that they have a strong influence on you
I completely fell under her spell .我完全给她迷住了。
When people blog about me, one of the surest ways I know whether to pay attention is to see how they spelled my name.
当人们在博客中提到我，其中一个最确切的方式知道他们是否用心就是他们会不会拼错我的名字。
In a face of a crackdown, students spelled out the word, "freedom. "
面临镇压，学生们写出了“自由”这个词。
If you do not enter out-of-vocabulary words in lower-case letters, the word is only found if it is spelled exactly like in your dictionary.
如果没有以小写字母的形式输入词汇表以外的单词，那么将查找到其在字典中的精确拼写。
"I come from the kind of family where marriage has not exactly spelled success, " she said.
她说，“我出身一个婚姻失败的家庭”。
Very early, Americans began trying to discover how a word "ought" to be pronounced by seeing how it was spelled.
很早以前，美国人就开始尝试根据词的拼法去判断它“应该”如何发音。
It was the other Walther Gassner who was real, the man in the computer, whose life had been spelled out in digits.
另一个瓦尔特·加斯纳才是真的。这个人在计算机里，他的生活已经在数字转换机上被拼缀出来了。
And at the back, are a new set of taillights, new rear bumper and a larger font Volvo name spelled out on the trunk door.
并在背面，是一套新的尾灯，后保险杠和新的更大的字体名称阐明沃尔沃的主干门。
Candace: Well, requirements are spelled out in the description, and I don't have much to add, really.
该职位的要求在描述中已经一一列出了，我没有什么可补充的了。
Her letters--pungent, witty, and vivid, spelled just as she spoke--detail her life in times of revolution.
在她的信中--生动、机智，就像她自己所说的--描述了革命时期生活的细节。
It took fifteen minutes for her to realize that she had spelled my name incorrectly.
她意识到拼错我的名字的时候已经过去了十五分钟。
The criteria or conditions must be clearly spelled out in law, regulation, or other official document, so As to be capable of verification.
标准或条件必须在法律、法规或其他官方文件中明确说明，以便能够进行核实。
No trip to Los Angeles is complete without seeing the word "Hollywood" spelled out in huge letters on a hillside.
如果没有去看在山坡上用巨大的字母拼写出来的“好莱坞”，那么洛杉矶之旅将是不完整的。
You should plan to achieve a real mastery of a few Essential Skills ( PDF), which are spelled out in the attached document.
你应计划真正掌握一些附件（PDF）说明的基本技能。
But if he had spelled out his new ideas in early 2006, says Mr Chew, "there would have been a lot of scepticism" .
但是如果Sarin先生在2006年早期透露这些新观点的话，Chew先生说：“肯定会有很多怀疑和猜忌”。
For this reason, the point where you add and remove listeners is clearly spelled out in the API.
出于这个原因，添加和除去侦听器的地方应该在API中清晰地注明。
Five months after taking over the top spot from ousted chief Mark Hurd, new CEO Leo Apotheker spelled out his plan to transform HP.
自从接替被罢免的CEOMarkHurd以来5个月中，新任CEOLeoApotheker发布了他整治HP公司的计划。
The treaty-signing in Prague comes almost exactly a year after Obama spelled out his long-range goal of a world without nuclear weapons.
条约在布拉格的签署正值奥巴马阐发他的长远愿景——一个无核武器世界一周年。
however, abbreviations used only once or twice should be spelled out in full unless doing so causes the word limit to be exceeded.
只使用一次或两次的缩略语应使用全称，除非这样做超出了字数要求。
I'd really like to see the details of the economics of this spelled out and may try to winnow it out of the info on Sen. Obama's web site.
我真的想要知道这些建议背后的经济学原理，有可能的话我会去奥巴马的网站上去查阅相关的信息来搞明白。
At the very least, deductible levels and lifetime caps will have to be specified, and a minimum-benefits package will likely be spelled out.
最终，免责条款和生命年限将不得不详细规定，同时推出一系列最低收益政策。
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