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- a tool with a sharp-edged, typically rectangular, metal blade and a long handle, used for digging or cutting earth, sand, turf, etc.铲, 锹。
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- a tool of a similar shape for another purpose, especially one for removing the blubber from a whale（尤指剖割鲸脂的）铲刀。
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- as modifier shaped like a spade铲形的：
a spade bit.
铲形钻头。
with obj.
1- dig over (ground) with a spade用锹挖（地）：
while spading the soil, I think of the flowers.
我铲地的时候, 一直留意着那些花朵。
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- with obj. and adverbial of direction move (soil) with a spade用锹铲（土）：
earth is spaded into the grave.
土被铲进墓穴中。
短语
call a spade a spade
- speak plainly without avoiding unpleasant or embarrassing issues直言不讳。
派生词
spadeful
noun （pl. -fuls）词源
Old English spadu, spada, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch spade, German Spaten, also to Greek spathē 'blade, paddle'.
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spades
one of the four suits in a conventional pack of playing cards, denoted by a black inverted heart-shaped figure with a small stalk（纸牌中的）黑桃。
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a spade
a card of this suit一张黑桃牌。
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- informal, offensive a black person〈非正式, 冒犯〉黑人。
短语
in spades
- informal to a very high degree〈非正式〉极度地：
he got his revenge now in spades.
他现在彻底地复仇了。
词源
late 16th cent.: from Italian spade, plural of spada 'sword', via Latin from Greek spathē; compare with SPADE1.