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单词 spill the beans
释义

bean /bēn/

noun
  1. The name of several kinds of leguminous plants and their seeds, esp the common or broad bean (Vicia faba) and the French, kidney or haricot bean (Phaseolus vulgaris)
  2. Applied also to the seeds of other plants, from their bean-like form, such as coffee
  3. A coin (obsolete except in not a bean (informal) not a cent, no money at all)
  4. (in pl) little or nothing at all (N American informal)
  5. The head (informal)
  6. A component of a Java program that can be reused in other programs (computing)
transitive verb (informal)

To hit on the head

ORIGIN: OE bēan, Ger Bohne

beanˈery noun (US sl)

A cheap restaurant

beanˈie noun (informal)

A small, close-fitting hat

beanˈo noun (pl beanˈos) (informal)

  1. A beanfeast, a rowdy jollification
  2. Bingo

beanˈbag noun

  1. A small cloth bag containing dried beans or the like, used in games, etc
  2. A large cushion filled eg with chips or balls of plastic foam, used as seating (also beanbag chair)

bean caper noun

A shrub (genus Zygophyllum) of steppe and desert whose flower-buds are used as capers

bean counter noun (informal)

An accountant, esp one considered parsimonious or unsupportive of creativity

bean curd noun

A soft paste made from soya beans, used in Chinese and vegetarian cookery

beanˈfeast noun

  1. An annual dinner given by employers to their workers
  2. A jollification

beanˈ-king noun

The king of the festivities on Twelfth Night, finder of a bean hidden in the Twelfth cake

beanˈpole noun

  1. A supporting pole up which a bean plant climbs
  2. A tall, very thin person (informal)

bean sprout, bean shoot noun

The young shoot of the mung bean or certain other beans, used as a vegetable esp in Chinese cookery

beanˈstalk noun

The stem of a bean plant

bean tree noun

A name given to several trees, as Moreton Bay chestnut, carob tree, and catalpa

full of beans (informal)

Energetic and in high spirits

give someone beans (archaic)

To treat someone severely

know how many beans make five (informal)

To be fully alert, know what's what

old bean (informal)

An affectionate form of address, usu to a man

spill the beans (informal)

To divulge information, or a secret, whether inadvertently or not

spill1 /spil/

transitive verb (pat and pap spilled or spilt)
  1. To allow to run out of a container
  2. To shed
  3. To waste
  4. To throw from a vehicle or the saddle (informal)
  5. To empty from the belly of a sail or empty of wind for reefing
  6. To overlay as if by spilling (Spenser)
  7. To kill (obsolete)
  8. To destroy (obsolete)
intransitive verb
  1. To overflow
  2. To be shed
  3. To be allowed to fall, be lost, or wasted
  4. To come to grief or ruin (obsolete)
noun
  1. A fall, a throw
  2. A spilling
ORIGIN: OE spillan; Du spillen, ON spilla to destroy

spillˈage noun

  1. The act of spilling
  2. That which is spilt

spillˈer noun

spillˈing noun

spilth noun

  1. Spilling
  2. Anything spilt or poured out lavishly
  3. Excess

spilling line noun

A rope for spilling the wind out of a square sail

spillˈover noun

An overflow (also figurative)

spillˈ-stream noun

  1. An overflow channel
  2. A bayou

spillˈway noun (informal)

A passage for overflow water

spill one's guts (informal)

To confess all that one knows

spill over

To overflow (also figurative)

spill the beans see under bean
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