spade
spade 英 [speɪd] 美 [sped]
n. 铁锹，铲子
进行时:spading 过去式:spaded 过去分词:spaded 第三人称单数:spades 名词复数:spades
- If you're a gardener, you know that a spade is a small shovel with a short handle. A spade is perfect for planting bulbs and digging up weeds.
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- n. 铁锹，铲子
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1. He laid the spade by the door.
他把铲子放在门边。
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2. I dug with a spade.
我用铁铲挖掘。
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3. What are you doing with that spade?
你拿那把铁锹干什么？
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4. He dug the ground with a spade.
他用锹挖地。
- spade (n.1) "tool for digging," Old English spadu "spade," from Proto-Germanic *spadan (source also of Old Frisian spada "a spade," Middle Dutch spade "a sword," Old Saxon spado, Middle Low German spade, German Spaten), from PIE *spe-dh-, from root *spe- (2) "long, flat piece of wood" (source also of Greek spathe "wooden blade, paddle," Old English spon "chip of wood, splinter," Old Norse spann "shingle, chip;" see spoon (n.)).
- spade (n.2) black figure on playing cards," 1590s, probably from Italian spade, plural of spada "the ace of spades," literally "sword, spade," from Latin spatha "broad, flat weapon or tool," from Greek spathe "broad blade" (see spade (n.1)). Phrase in spades "in abundance" first recorded 1929 (Damon Runyon), probably from bridge, where spades are the highest-ranking suit.
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