Spade
[speɪd] or [sped]
解释:
(noun.) a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot.
(noun.) a playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it; 'she led a low spade'; 'spades were trumps'.
(verb.) dig (up) with a spade; 'I spade compost into the flower beds'.
黛博拉编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A hart or stag three years old.
(n.) A castrated man or beast.
(n.) An implement for digging or cutting the ground, consisting usually of an oblong and nearly rectangular blade of iron, with a handle like that of a shovel.
(n.) One of that suit of cards each of which bears one or more figures resembling a spade.
(n.) A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
(v. t.) To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade.
校对:罗杰
解释:
n. a broad blade of iron with a handle used for digging: a playing-card of one of the two black suits shaped like a heart with a triangular handle.—v.t. to dig with a spade.—ns. Spade′-bone the scapula; Spade′-foot a scaphiopod or spade-footed toad; Spade′ful as much as a spade will hold; Spade′-guin′ea a guinea coined 1787-99 so called from the shield on the reverse side having the shape of the spade in playing-cards.—Call a spade a spade to call things by their plain names without softening: to speak out plainly.
n. a eunuch: a gelding.—Also Spā′do.
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娱乐性解释：
To dream of a kind of shovel called spade, denotes that you will have work to complete, which will give you much annoyance in superintending. If you dream of cards named spades, you will be enticed into follies which will bring you grief and misfortune. For a gambler to dream that spades are trumps, means that unfortunate deals will deplete his winnings.
整理:威尔伯
例句:
- Is the man born yet, is the spade wrought yet? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Soon he discovered a spade hidden by the underbrush which they had laid upon the grave. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Instead of entering the house at once he fetched a spade from a little shed and began to work in the garden. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Tired, I suppose, with her importunity, he threw down his spade, approached, and pushed the door ajar. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- One of them ran for a spade; the other two assisted George to carry the body to the wagon. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- With such a history how could a nation fail to see in its constitution anything but a tool of life, like the axe, the spade or the plough? 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- All was now ready for the pick and spade. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Where are the digger and the spade, this peaceful night, destined to add the last great secret to the many secrets of the Tulkinghorn existence? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- The lantern, the spade, and the wicker bottle were found, that day, in the churchyard. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- It is a device as necessary to the industrial growth of man as the axe or the spade. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Clubs, not spades, are trumps, said Lawrence. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- A child sees persons with whom he lives using chairs, hats, tables, spades, saws, plows, horses, money in certain ways. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- There were ploughs which were made heavy or light as the different soils required, and there were a variety of farm implements, such as spades, hoes, harrows and rakes. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- And then our spades showed us that SOMETHING had been buried beneath the corpse, for a hole had been there and it had been filled with loose earth. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- He had no tools to work with except those of the pioneers--axes, picks, and spades. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
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