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- a tool resembling a spade with a broad blade and typically upturned sides, used for moving coal, earth, snow, or other material铁锹, 铲。
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- a machine or part of a machine having a similar shape or function铲状物; 挖掘机。
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- an amount of something carried or moved with a shovel一铁锹之量：
a few shovels of earth
几锹土。
(shovelled, shovelling; <美> shoveled, shoveling) with obj. and adverbial
1- move (coal, earth, snow, or similar) with a shovel铲（煤、土、雪或类似之物）：
she shovelled coal on the fire.
她把煤铲到火上。
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- informal put or push (something, typically food) somewhere quickly and in large quantities〈非正式〉把…胡乱和快速放入; 大量投入：
Dave was shovelling pasta into his mouth.
戴夫正大口大口地吃通心面。
派生词
shovelful
noun （pl. -fuls）词源
Old English scofl, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schoffel, German Schaufel, also to the verb SHOVE.