Shovel
['ʃʌv(ə)l] or ['ʃʌvl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a hand tool for lifting loose material; consists of a curved container or scoop and a handle.
(noun.) a fire iron consisting of a small shovel used to scoop coals or ashes in a fireplace.
(noun.) the quantity a shovel can hold.
(verb.) dig with or as if with a shovel; 'shovel sand'; 'he shovelled in the backyard all afternoon long'.
艾德里安整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) An implement consisting of a broad scoop, or more or less hollow blade, with a handle, used for lifting and throwing earth, coal, grain, or other loose substances.
(v. t.) To take up and throw with a shovel; as, to shovel earth into a heap, or into a cart, or out of a pit.
(v. t.) To gather up as with a shovel.
編輯:马克斯
解釋/意思:
n. an instrument consisting of a broad blade or scoop with a handle used for lifting loose substances.—v.t. to lift up and throw with a shovel: to gather in large quantities.—v.i. to use a shovel:—pr.p. shov′elling; pa.t. and pa.p. shov′elled.—ns. Shov′el-board Shove′-groat Shuff′le-board a game in which a piece of money or metal is driven with the hand toward a mark on a board: the board used in the game; Shov′elful as much as a shovel will hold:—pl. Shov′elfuls; Shov′el-hat a hat with a broad brim turned up at the sides and projecting in front—affected by Anglican clergy; Shov′el-head the bonnet-headed shark: the shovel-headed sturgeon; Shov′eller one who shovels: a genus of ducks with mandibles very broad at the end; Shov′el-nose a sturgeon with broad depressed shovel-shaped snout.
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娱乐性解釋/意思:
To see a shovel in a dream, signifies laborious but withal pleasant work will be undertaken. A broken or old one, implies frustration of hopes.
杰拉尔德編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- You didn't think your Cap'n was a-goin' to dig with a shovel, did you? 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- The steam-shovel did not discriminate, but picked up handily single pieces weighing five or six tons and loaded them on the skips with quantities of smaller lumps. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Mr. Sykes now addressed Mr. Helstone, who stood on the hearth, his shovel-hat on his head, watching him significantly with his little, keen eyes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- It is the right-hand parlour, into which an aspiring kitchen fireplace appears to have walked, accompanied by a rebellious poker, tongs, and shovel. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Helstone lifted his shovel-hat. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The Reverend Bute Crawley was a tall, stately, jolly, shovel-hatted man, far more popular in his county than the Baronet his brother. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- If he could have got a shovel hat he would have worn it. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The rat-faced one now called to the men who had remained at the boat, and they came slowly up the bank carrying picks and shovels. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Still, they had not come upon Flintwinch yet; so the sturdy digging and shovelling and carrying away went on without intermission by night and by day. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Now, it's too late for me to begin shovelling and sifting at alphabeds and grammar-books. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Earth was shovelled in and tramped down about the chest until the bottom of the grave showed level and uniform. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- They laid him in; and the men shovelled away, silently. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
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