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spade n.铲子；铁锹n.黑桃v.铲 (1) 她拿了把铲子和大家一起大干起来。(2) 我父亲用一把特别的铲子挖草皮。(3) 他正在用铁锹挖马铃薯。(4) 用这样一把旧铁锹挖地真费劲。(5) 我的搭档先出黑桃，使我感到吃惊。(6) 有命令要我们必须在一小时内挖好战壕。(7) 我用铁锹把堆肥撒到花坛中。 In addition to a small digging tool, a spade is also a suit of playing card — the black one that looks a bit like an upside-down heart. There's even a card game called "Spades" in which a spade has a higher value than any other suit. The two meanings have different roots; the card suit spade comes from the Greek spathe, and the little shovel kind of spade has Proto-Germanic roots that mean "flat piece of wood."

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英 [speɪd] 美 [speɪd] (1) She got a spade and laid to with the others.(2) My father used a special spade for digging turf.(3) He was digging potatoes with a spade.(4) It's hard to work this soil with such an old spade.(5) My partner surprised me by leading with a spade.(6) Orders came that we should spade the trench in an hour.(7) I spade compost into the flower beds. 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. 1[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 AA 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。

英语单词	spade
英美音标	英 [speɪd] 美 [speɪd]
中文释义	n.铲子；铁锹 n.黑桃 v.铲
英语例句	(1) She got a spade and laid to with the others. (2) My father used a special spade for digging turf. (3) He was digging potatoes with a spade. (4) It's hard to work this soil with such an old spade. (5) My partner surprised me by leading with a spade. (6) Orders came that we should spade the trench in an hour. (7) I spade compost into the flower beds.
中文例句	(1) 她拿了把铲子和大家一起大干起来。 (2) 我父亲用一把特别的铲子挖草皮。 (3) 他正在用铁锹挖马铃薯。 (4) 用这样一把旧铁锹挖地真费劲。 (5) 我的搭档先出黑桃，使我感到吃惊。 (6) 有命令要我们必须在一小时内挖好战壕。 (7) 我用铁锹把堆肥撒到花坛中。
vocabulary简明	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.
vocabulary扩展	In addition to a small digging tool, a spade is also a suit of playing card — the black one that looks a bit like an upside-down heart. There's even a card game called "Spades" in which a spade has a higher value than any other suit. The two meanings have different roots; the card suit spade comes from the Greek spathe, and the little shovel kind of spade has Proto-Germanic roots that mean "flat piece of wood."
柯林斯解释	1 [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。

Spade Card Digging Suit Playing Small Shovel Handle