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Spade Black Speɪd Card Tool Metal Blade Long

This flashcard defines "spade" as a digging tool, a suit in playing cards (black symbols like pointed leaves), and a playing card of that suit. It also notes the idiom "call a spade a spade" for speaking directly and honestly.

Spade

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/spe͟ɪd/
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]铲;锹 A spade is a tool used for digging, with a flat metal blade and a long handle.
  • ... a garden spade...

    园艺铲

  • The girls happily played in the sand with buckets and spades.

    女孩子们拿着桶和铲子在沙滩上快活地玩耍。

2
[N-UNCOUNT-COLL 不可数集合名词](纸牌中的)黑桃 Spades is one of the four suits in a pack of playing cards. Each card in the suit is marked with one or more black symbols: .
  • ...the ace of spades.

    黑桃 A

  • A spade is a playing card of this suit.(一张)黑桃牌
3
[PHRASE 短语]有啥说啥;直言不讳 If you say that someone calls a spade a spade, you mean that they speak clearly and directly about things, even embarrassing or unpleasant things.
  [V inflects]
  [approval]
  • I'm not at all secretive, and I'm pretty good at calling a spade a spade.

    我不会遮遮掩掩,我喜欢直言不讳。


Oxford spade / speɪd ; NAmE speɪd / noun _tools_garden_comp.jpg _spade.jpg 1 [countable ] a garden tool with a broad metal blade and a long handle, used for digging 锹;铲 Turn the soil over with a spade. 用锹把地翻一遍。 ( BrE) The children took their buckets and spadesto the beach. 孩子们带上自己的桶和铲子到海滩去了。 compare
shovel
2 spades [plural ,  uncountable ] one of the four sets of cards (called
suits
) in a pack/deckof cards. The cards have a black design shaped like pointed leaves with short stems (纸牌中的)黑桃
the five/queen/ace of spades 黑桃五╱王后╱ A
3 [countable ] a card from the set of spades 黑桃牌 You must play a spade if you have one. 你如果有黑桃牌,就必须打出来。 4 [countable ] ( taboo, slang) an offensive word for a black person 黑人;黑鬼 IDIOM in ˈspades ( informal) in large amounts or to a great degree 大量;非常 He'd got his revenge now, and in spades. 现在他报了仇,毫不留情地报了仇。 more at
call
v.
spade spades spaded spading
spade / speɪd ; NAmE speɪd /
LDC
spadespade /speɪd/ ●●○ noun [countable]
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1spade (1)a tool for digging that has a long handle and a broad metal blade that you push into the groundshovel2 (also spades [plural]) a playing card belonging to the set of cards that have one or more black shapes that look like pointed leaves printed on them:  the queen of spades3call a spade a spade to speak about things in a direct and honest way, even though it may be impolite to do this4in spades to a great degree, or in large amounts:  Beauty, intelligence, wealth – my mother had all of them in spades.5[countable] taboo old-fashioned a very offensive word for a black person. Do not use this word.
WDF

spade

[speɪd]spaded, spading, spades

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spades[1886]
铁锹(35%),铲(33%),黑桃(19%),铲子(13%)
n.铁锹,铲子
vt.铲;把……弄实抹平
vi.
n.(Spade)人名;(英)斯佩德;(法)斯帕德

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