Spade
[ sped ]
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n. 铁锹，铲子;纸牌中的)黑桃;
vt. 铲;
📝 例句
He prefered, in his grandiloquent way, to call a spade a spade.
他喜欢夸夸其谈地谈出事实的真相来。
He was digging potatoes with a spade.
他正在用铁锹挖马铃薯。
Bob, who had no intention of working, leaned lazily on his spade.
鲍勃不想干活,懒洋洋地倚在铁铲上。
Just give him a bucket and spade and he's in seventh heaven!
只要给他一个桶子和一把铲子, 他就高兴极了!
What are you doing with that spade?
你用铁锹干什么吗？
🌱 联想助记
【记】※ spade-铲子,space-场地:使用铲子,平整场地
※ spread-伸展,spade-铁锹:伸展双臂,挥舞铁锹
※ s-似“美女”,pa-拼音“怕”,de-拼音“德”:美女怕德国人手上的那把铲子
✅ 同义词
🔤 词根
📖 牛津释义
spade
n
1 tool for digging, with a wooden handle and a broad metal blade 锹; 铲
a garden spade 种花草用的锹.
2 (idm 习语) call a spade a spade => call2.
spade n
(a) spades [sing or pl v]
suit of playing-cards marked with black figures shaped like pointed leaves with short stems （纸牌中的）黑桃
the five of spades 黑桃五
Spades is/are trumps. 黑桃是王牌.
(b) [C] card from this suit 黑桃牌
I've only one spade left. 我只剩一张黑桃了. =>illus at playing-card 见 playing-card 插图.
🎯 考研助记
是背的（谐音）： 铁锹是用来背在身上的 网友：yqy 补充：拿铲子（spade）在空地（space）挖（d，铲子，象形）
🔁 扩展释义
*[speid]n. 铲子, 锄, 铲刀, 黑桃vt. 以锄掘, 把...弄实抹平vi. 铲【医】 铲; 去睾者(阉人,阉兽)相关词组: call a spade a spade
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📖 同为「CET-4」词汇
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I'm not sure that this conference is as good as last year's.
我确信这次会议不如去年的会议精彩。
Other books are for reading slowly and carefully. If it is a book on a subject that you are interested in, you will want to chew and digest it. That does not mean reading it too slowly. When you pick up a book for the first time, check that it is not to
还有一些书是要慢慢地、仔细地阅读的。如果有一本书谈论的题目你很感兴趣，你就想“咀嚼、消化它”。这并不意味着要读得太慢。当你第一次拿起一本书的时候，你得检查一下，这本书不是太难读。除非从头几页书中你能看出这是一本你容易读懂的书，否则你就不要去读它。
From this we get the expression to make a beeline for someone or something, which means to go quickly along a straight direct course for someone or something.
从这里我们得到一条短语"to make a beeline for someone or something，意思是迅速地沿着一条直线向某人或某物走去。