- 1腐壞、變質耗損（商業／食品業用語，指貨品壞掉及因此造成的損失）
Food or goods going bad, and the loss that causes. It is a formal, business word — you meet it in shops, farms, factories, shipping, and food-safety rules, not in a home kitchen. A supermarket manager talks about reducing spoilage; nobody says 'there is spoilage in my fridge.' It covers both the process (milk turning sour, fruit rotting) and the amount lost because of it, which is why you can say 'spoilage was five percent last month.' It is uncountable, so no a and no plural. Beyond food, printers and manufacturers use it for materials ruined during production. The everyday way to say the same thing is much simpler: the food went off, or the food went bad.
組成spoil (to go bad, to ruin) + -age (an ending that turns a verb into the amount or result of doing it, as in break → breakage). The -age ending came into English from French, and spoil itself traces back through French to Latin spoliare, meaning to strip or plunder.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
spoilagenoun
- 1
The part of something that has spoiled.
- 2
The process of spoiling.
- To prevent spoilage, store in a cool, dry place.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。