英语词汇“spade”的意思、释义、用法解释及翻译-春雷网

spade¹

noun speɪdspeɪd

1A tool with a sharp-edged, typically rectangular, metal blade and a long handle, used for digging or cutting earth, sand, turf, etc.
铲，锹
Example sentencesExamples
- The rules and regulations were explained and they were given basic digging implements - a spade and a fork.
- The hardware stores sold spades, forks, rakes and all sorts of farming implements.
- A few shiny buckets hung from a hook and some new tools, brushes, spades and shovels stood beside the door.
- For a start, get a good spade, with a long enough handle for your height.
- An electric bench grinder is the most efficient way to recover the cutting edges on shovels, spades, hoes, and lawn mower blades.
- He said they left behind tools they had used to damage the trees including a saw, a spade and a fork.
- Some 30 pupils, all aged 13 or 14, picked up spades and shovels to improve the school's landscape.
- The traditional square blade of a spade may derive from its historical use as a tool to cut peat, sod or soft garden soil, none of which provide much resistance to the blade.
- He merely turned over huge clods of earth with one twist of a big spade and left them there, weeds still intact.
- What may be a surprise is that the bottom of your foot hurts, bruised from stepping on the hard metal of the spade or fork repeatedly.
- Use a spading fork or shovel to lift clumps, then cut the clumps into sections with a spade, shovel, sharp knife, or pruning shears.
- Others are harder to deal with and have to be cut with a knife or the sharp edge of a spade if the clump is big.
- Volunteers will be very welcome on Wednesday evening and every other Wednesday and they are asked to bring along a spade, shovel, rake or brush because the first evening will be a general clean up.
- He prefers the Irish spade, with its longer, narrower blade, to English and American models.
- A good man to handle a shovel or spade, Eddie went quietly about his business, a gentleman throughout his life.
- If there is a moment, I still get my spades, forks and secateurs and go out and do some work.
- Hand tools such as spades, shovels and sickles, which currently attracted a 16 per cent excise duty, would also be fully exempted.
- Visitors seized the forks and spades that had been temptingly placed by a nasty patch of brambles and nettles and began to clear a new bed that will be used for pumpkins, sweet corn and tomatoes in a few weeks.
- Approaches to dwelling houses and farms were cleared by men with spades and shovels - bulldozers weren't part of the scene for several years afterwards.
- Armed with their metal detectors, spades and uncontrollable imaginations the assembled horde scattered to all corners of the field in search of treasure.
Synonyms
oar, scull, sweep, blade, spoon
1. 1.1 A tool shaped like a spade but used for another purpose, especially one for removing the blubber from a whale.
  （尤指剖割鲸脂的）铲刀
2. 1.2as modifier Shaped like a spade.
  铲形的
  a spade bit
  铲形钻头。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Your next step is drilling the latch hole on the edge of the door, using the specified spade bit.
  Other useful attachments include hole saw blades, spade bits, buffing disks and depth stops, screw driving bits, sanding disks, or even a power grinder.
  To drill counter-mounted faucet holes, use an electric drill and an appropriately sized hole saw or spade bit.
  The guns are actuated by a three-way switch on the spade grip of the stick.
  To drill the latch hole on the edge of the door, use the spade bit specified by the manufacturer.
  Try to remove some of the material first with a spade bit or drill bit.
  A set of standard mackerel feathers, often tied using spade end commercial haddock hooks, are ideal.
  All of the hooks I have seen show a simple round bend design with either an open eye or a spade end and have been made from iron.
  Then I will tend to revert to the neater spade end hook.
  Large bits, such as spade bits, will require a little more speed, up to as high as 5000 RPM.
  This leaves the unsupported spade rudder quite vulnerable to damage should it be grounded even in a soft bottom.
  Use a sharp spade bit to bore a 1-inch diameter hole through each end of every floorboard you have to replace.
  The spade bit, when used properly, works well on acrylic.
  She is very well mannered in conditions that would give fits to the helmsmen of modem boats with high aspect fin keels and spade rudders.

verb speɪdspeɪd

[with object]

1Dig over (ground) with a spade.
用锹挖（地）
while spading the soil, I think of the flowers
我铲地的时候，一直留意着那些花朵。
Example sentencesExamples
- He wanted to spade his potato garden, but it was very hard work.
- In the spring she spaded a garden, but the carrots bent as if they'd hit metal and slugs tattered the lettuce.
- Seeds should be broadcast in the fall or early spring in well-drained sandy soil that has been well spaded or raked.
- And by the end of the landscaping season, I was lifting 30 pounds of lime and soil and spading flower beds.
- We have also tried our roller on a wheat cover crop before planting soybeans, but it had little effect on the small weeds in the wheat and we ended up spading that ground before planting the soybeans.
Synonyms
cultivate, till, harrow, plough, turn over, work, break up
1. 1.1with object and adverbial of direction Move (soil) with a spade.
  用锹挖（地）
  earth is spaded into the grave
  土被铲进墓穴中。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Dressed in yellow jackets, trousers and rubber boots, visitors can find excitement in spading gold-bearing sand and gravel into a metal pail.
  ‘We propped up one end of the screen on a wheelbarrow and spaded the plants, compost and all, up onto the frame,’ she says.

Phrases

call a spade a spade

Speak plainly without avoiding unpleasant or embarrassing issues.
直言不讳
it is time to name names and call a spade a spade
Example sentencesExamples
- They had the greatest difficulty in calling a spade a spade or a killing a killing: rather it was ‘expressing violence’.
- And the president should not be criticized for being a straight shooter and calling a spade a spade.
- So at one level this is an issue of clarity; the simple business of calling a spade a spade.
- Given the enormous amount of evidence that supports that conclusion, I just don't think it's reasonable to say that calling a spade a spade in this case is ‘hackneyed, inappropriate and immature.’
- She has people rooting for her in this country simply because she calls a spade a spade.
- It's high time people started calling a spade a spade.
- A source described him as extremely straightforward, somebody who calls a spade a spade and has no hidden agenda.
- Finally a report that calls a spade a spade on the country's dangerous love affair with the demon drink.
- He called a spade a spade and in many ways was an archetypal Yorkshireman - blunt and straight to the point.
- After a while, we started to talk and I began to like him, because he's funny and he's straightforward and he calls a spade a spade.
Synonyms
insensitive, inconsiderate, thoughtless, unthinking, indelicate, undiplomatic, impolitic, indiscreet, unsubtle, clumsy, heavy-handed, graceless, awkward, unpolished, inept, bungling, maladroit, gauche, undiscerning, unsophisticated

Derivatives

spadeful

nounPlural spadefuls ˈspeɪdfʊl

And they cannot put more than one spadeful of rubbish in each bag as it may tear.
Example sentencesExamples
- This hypothesis crumbled at the first spadeful below the topsoil.
- Choose an open, sunny spot with a moisture-retentive, well-drained soil and dig over the earth to remove all weeds before adding a few spadefuls of organic matter.
- You'll use much less soil if you find a way to keep the soil where you want it rather than having each spadeful cascade all over the place.
- Short removes two spadefuls of sand and black, viscous oil slowly begins to fill the new pit.

Origin

Old English spadu, spada, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch spade, German Spaten, also to Greek spathē 'blade, paddle'.

A spade for digging is related to Greek spathē ‘blade or paddle’ and has been in the language since Anglo-Saxon times, while the spade that appears on a playing card dates from the 16th century. The latter is based on Italian spada ‘a broad-bladed sword’, though the design (a black upside-down heart shape with a stalk) looks more like a pointed spade than a sword. To call a spade a spade, ‘to speak plainly, without avoiding unpleasant or embarrassing issues’, dates from the mid 16th century. In The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), Oscar Wilde has the nicely brought up Miss Gwendolen Fairfax respond to this: ‘I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade’. A tongue-in-cheek variation, dating from the early 20th century, is call a spade a shovel. In spades means ‘to a very high degree’, or ‘as much as or more than could be desired’, and comes from the card game bridge, in which spades are the highest-ranking suit.

Rhymes

abrade, afraid, aid, aide, ambuscade, arcade, balustrade, barricade, Belgrade, blade, blockade, braid, brigade, brocade, cannonade, carronade, cascade, cavalcade, cockade, colonnade, crusade, dissuade, downgrade, enfilade, esplanade, evade, fade, fusillade, glade, grade, grenade, grillade, handmade, harlequinade, homemade, invade, jade, lade, laid, lemonade, limeade, made, maid, man-made, marinade, masquerade, newlaid, orangeade, paid, palisade, parade, pasquinade, persuade, pervade, raid, serenade, shade, Sinéad, staid, stockade, stock-in-trade, suede, tailor-made, they'd, tirade, trade, Ubaid, underpaid, undismayed, unplayed, unsprayed, unswayed, upbraid, upgrade, wade

spade²

noun speɪdspeɪd

1a spadeOne of the four suits in a conventional pack of playing cards, denoted by a black inverted heart-shaped figure with a small stalk.
（纸牌中的）黑桃
Example sentencesExamples
- Diamonds are highest, followed by clubs, then spades, then hearts.
- They cannot take a trick, and are great to have when you don't want to play that Queen of spades.
- If at anytime the queen of spades is dealt face up, the game resets and the pot stays in.
- There is no ranking between the suits - so for example the king of hearts and the king of spades are equal.
- In all four trump structures, the queen of clubs is the highest card, the 7 of trump second, and the queen of spades third.
- If spades are trumps then an extra double is automatically applied to the final scores.
- Each heart scores one point, and the queen of spades scores 13 points.
- Because of the difference in score, clubs and diamonds are called the minor suits and hearts and spades are the major suits.
- In this case the player with the ace of spades can call.
- The audience could see it was four of spades though not the magician.
- An Ace of hearts would lose to it, but a two of spades would beat the joker.
- The trump suit is clubs if all three succeeded, hearts if two, spades if one or diamonds if no-one fulfilled their contract.
- When the reserve cards are equal the suits rank in descending order: spades, hearts, diamonds, clubs.
- He led the four of spades and East won with the king.
- Some players play with only one joker, but use the deuce of spades as permanent second highest trump in the game.
- The Queen of spades may be placed only on the King of spades.
- Normally, a standard deck's 52 cards are divided equally among four suits: spades, clubs, diamonds, and hearts.
- Once the nine of spades is played, then the ten may be played, and so on.
- If your pack of cards has no joker, the two of spades can be used as a substitute.
- The ace of spades is the most powerful card, irrespective of what suit is trumps.
1. 1.1a spade A card of the suit of spades.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Lots of low spades are usually good but can win lots of hearts.
  For example, if you expose the queen of spades, then the first time that someone leads a spade you are not allowed to play the queen if you have other spades.
  You are not allowed to nominate a suit in which you have previously shown void - for example if you have previously discarded a diamond on a spade lead by someone else, you cannot later lead the joker and call it a spade.
  If the knock card is a spade, the points are doubled
  The trump maker leads a spade which player A wins with the ace, becoming the first partner.
  If the player on lead has no ace, a spade must be led.
  In no trump bids, the two of spades resumes its normal function as a spade.
  Player 3 is allowed to play the club even though he has a spade.
  Consequently, when a player claims his seventh card, he should do this by putting it face up on top of the first six cards claimed, and it must be a spade.
  Take out of the deck three clubs, diamonds, hearts and spades for every player.
  If the first card is not a spade, then player 3 then plays a card.
  The player to dealer's left leads any card except a spade to the first trick.
  But suppose that after looking at your first four cards, they're all spades.
  Between equal ranked pairs, the pair containing the spade is higher, irrespective of the suit of the other card.
  Also, because he knows that player two's card is already a spade, he turns over all the cards that aren't spades as well.
  The trumps are a suit of their own for suit following purposes - for example, in a normal game, the queen of spades is a trump, not a spade.
  If a spade is turned it is put back in the middle of the talon and the next card is turned up for trumps.
  The other players must all play spades if they can, but players 2 and 3 have no spades and so are allowed to play other suits.
  He dropped a spade on the first card and looked at her as she tossed another on top of his.
  You have a pair of kings, three spades, and no chance for a straight.
2offensive, informal A black person.
〈非正式，冒犯〉黑人

Phrases

in spades

informal To a very high degree.
〈非正式〉极度地
he got his revenge now in spades
他现在彻底地复仇了。
Example sentencesExamples
- It called upon qualities that neither one of us has in spades, to kind of sell yourself and sell this product.
- Shaw's staff thought the world of him, and their loyalty was repaid in spades.
- Try to avoid the obvious tourist traps as you'll miss out on the ambience and unique characters that more traditional halls have in spades.
- Realize that whatever you do to me, I'm likely to do to you in spades.
- And he has repaid that faith in spades, humility and understatement his trademark all season, on and off the field.
- Needless to say, to successfully achieve such remarkable feats required all four of the above virtues in spades.
- A lesser wine from one of the region's top producers, this delivers cherries, tea, acidity and tannins in spades.
- It is a gift, and this silver-tongued charmer has it in spades.
- Sincerity isn't what normally comes to mind when talking about pop music, but these two sets of twins have it in spades.
- Politically, this decision of Charles's is paying off in spades.

Origin

Late 16th century: from Italian spade, plural of spada 'sword', via Latin from Greek spathē; compare with spade¹.

spade¹

nounspādspeɪd

1A tool with a sharp-edged, typically rectangular, metal blade and a long handle, used for digging or cutting earth, sand, turf, etc.
铲，锹
Example sentencesExamples
- If there is a moment, I still get my spades, forks and secateurs and go out and do some work.
- Approaches to dwelling houses and farms were cleared by men with spades and shovels - bulldozers weren't part of the scene for several years afterwards.
- Volunteers will be very welcome on Wednesday evening and every other Wednesday and they are asked to bring along a spade, shovel, rake or brush because the first evening will be a general clean up.
- Visitors seized the forks and spades that had been temptingly placed by a nasty patch of brambles and nettles and began to clear a new bed that will be used for pumpkins, sweet corn and tomatoes in a few weeks.
- Hand tools such as spades, shovels and sickles, which currently attracted a 16 per cent excise duty, would also be fully exempted.
- For a start, get a good spade, with a long enough handle for your height.
- Some 30 pupils, all aged 13 or 14, picked up spades and shovels to improve the school's landscape.
- The traditional square blade of a spade may derive from its historical use as a tool to cut peat, sod or soft garden soil, none of which provide much resistance to the blade.
- He prefers the Irish spade, with its longer, narrower blade, to English and American models.
- Use a spading fork or shovel to lift clumps, then cut the clumps into sections with a spade, shovel, sharp knife, or pruning shears.
- Armed with their metal detectors, spades and uncontrollable imaginations the assembled horde scattered to all corners of the field in search of treasure.
- Others are harder to deal with and have to be cut with a knife or the sharp edge of a spade if the clump is big.
- The rules and regulations were explained and they were given basic digging implements - a spade and a fork.
- A good man to handle a shovel or spade, Eddie went quietly about his business, a gentleman throughout his life.
- An electric bench grinder is the most efficient way to recover the cutting edges on shovels, spades, hoes, and lawn mower blades.
- The hardware stores sold spades, forks, rakes and all sorts of farming implements.
- He said they left behind tools they had used to damage the trees including a saw, a spade and a fork.
- What may be a surprise is that the bottom of your foot hurts, bruised from stepping on the hard metal of the spade or fork repeatedly.
- He merely turned over huge clods of earth with one twist of a big spade and left them there, weeds still intact.
- A few shiny buckets hung from a hook and some new tools, brushes, spades and shovels stood beside the door.
Synonyms
oar, scull, sweep, blade, spoon
1. 1.1 A tool with a shape similar to a spade for another purpose, especially one for removing the blubber from a whale.
  （尤指剖割鲸脂的）铲刀

verbspādspeɪd

[with object]

1Dig in (ground) with a spade.
用锹挖（地）
while spading the soil, I think of the flowers
我铲地的时候，一直留意着那些花朵。
Example sentencesExamples
- Seeds should be broadcast in the fall or early spring in well-drained sandy soil that has been well spaded or raked.
- In the spring she spaded a garden, but the carrots bent as if they'd hit metal and slugs tattered the lettuce.
- We have also tried our roller on a wheat cover crop before planting soybeans, but it had little effect on the small weeds in the wheat and we ended up spading that ground before planting the soybeans.
- He wanted to spade his potato garden, but it was very hard work.
- And by the end of the landscaping season, I was lifting 30 pounds of lime and soil and spading flower beds.
Synonyms
cultivate, till, harrow, plough, turn over, work, break up
1. 1.1 Move (soil) with a spade.
  用锹挖（地）
  earth is spaded into the grave
  土被铲进墓穴中。
  Example sentencesExamples
  ‘We propped up one end of the screen on a wheelbarrow and spaded the plants, compost and all, up onto the frame,’ she says.
  Dressed in yellow jackets, trousers and rubber boots, visitors can find excitement in spading gold-bearing sand and gravel into a metal pail.

Phrases

call a spade a spade

Speak plainly without avoiding unpleasant or embarrassing issues.
直言不讳
Example sentencesExamples
- Given the enormous amount of evidence that supports that conclusion, I just don't think it's reasonable to say that calling a spade a spade in this case is ‘hackneyed, inappropriate and immature.’
- Finally a report that calls a spade a spade on the country's dangerous love affair with the demon drink.
- A source described him as extremely straightforward, somebody who calls a spade a spade and has no hidden agenda.
- They had the greatest difficulty in calling a spade a spade or a killing a killing: rather it was ‘expressing violence’.
- He called a spade a spade and in many ways was an archetypal Yorkshireman - blunt and straight to the point.
- It's high time people started calling a spade a spade.
- So at one level this is an issue of clarity; the simple business of calling a spade a spade.
- She has people rooting for her in this country simply because she calls a spade a spade.
- And the president should not be criticized for being a straight shooter and calling a spade a spade.
- After a while, we started to talk and I began to like him, because he's funny and he's straightforward and he calls a spade a spade.
Synonyms
insensitive, inconsiderate, thoughtless, unthinking, indelicate, undiplomatic, impolitic, indiscreet, unsubtle, clumsy, heavy-handed, graceless, awkward, unpolished, inept, bungling, maladroit, gauche, undiscerning, unsophisticated

Origin

Old English spadu, spada, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch spade, German Spaten, also to Greek spathē ‘blade, paddle’.

spade²

nounspādspeɪd

1spadesOne of the four suits in a conventional deck of playing cards, denoted by a black inverted heart-shaped figure with a short stalk.
（纸牌中的）黑桃
Example sentencesExamples
- Some players play with only one joker, but use the deuce of spades as permanent second highest trump in the game.
- Normally, a standard deck's 52 cards are divided equally among four suits: spades, clubs, diamonds, and hearts.
- The ace of spades is the most powerful card, irrespective of what suit is trumps.
- Diamonds are highest, followed by clubs, then spades, then hearts.
- Each heart scores one point, and the queen of spades scores 13 points.
- Because of the difference in score, clubs and diamonds are called the minor suits and hearts and spades are the major suits.
- If at anytime the queen of spades is dealt face up, the game resets and the pot stays in.
- When the reserve cards are equal the suits rank in descending order: spades, hearts, diamonds, clubs.
- In all four trump structures, the queen of clubs is the highest card, the 7 of trump second, and the queen of spades third.
- The trump suit is clubs if all three succeeded, hearts if two, spades if one or diamonds if no-one fulfilled their contract.
- The Queen of spades may be placed only on the King of spades.
- There is no ranking between the suits - so for example the king of hearts and the king of spades are equal.
- If your pack of cards has no joker, the two of spades can be used as a substitute.
- Once the nine of spades is played, then the ten may be played, and so on.
- If spades are trumps then an extra double is automatically applied to the final scores.
- An Ace of hearts would lose to it, but a two of spades would beat the joker.
- In this case the player with the ace of spades can call.
- They cannot take a trick, and are great to have when you don't want to play that Queen of spades.
- He led the four of spades and East won with the king.
- The audience could see it was four of spades though not the magician.
1. 1.1 A playing card of the suit of spades.
  Example sentencesExamples
  But suppose that after looking at your first four cards, they're all spades.
  If the first card is not a spade, then player 3 then plays a card.
  Lots of low spades are usually good but can win lots of hearts.
  The player to dealer's left leads any card except a spade to the first trick.
  For example, if you expose the queen of spades, then the first time that someone leads a spade you are not allowed to play the queen if you have other spades.
  You are not allowed to nominate a suit in which you have previously shown void - for example if you have previously discarded a diamond on a spade lead by someone else, you cannot later lead the joker and call it a spade.
  Consequently, when a player claims his seventh card, he should do this by putting it face up on top of the first six cards claimed, and it must be a spade.
  The other players must all play spades if they can, but players 2 and 3 have no spades and so are allowed to play other suits.
  The trumps are a suit of their own for suit following purposes - for example, in a normal game, the queen of spades is a trump, not a spade.
  He dropped a spade on the first card and looked at her as she tossed another on top of his.
  Between equal ranked pairs, the pair containing the spade is higher, irrespective of the suit of the other card.
  The trump maker leads a spade which player A wins with the ace, becoming the first partner.
  Player 3 is allowed to play the club even though he has a spade.
  Take out of the deck three clubs, diamonds, hearts and spades for every player.
  You have a pair of kings, three spades, and no chance for a straight.
  In no trump bids, the two of spades resumes its normal function as a spade.
  Also, because he knows that player two's card is already a spade, he turns over all the cards that aren't spades as well.
  If the knock card is a spade, the points are doubled
  If the player on lead has no ace, a spade must be led.
  If a spade is turned it is put back in the middle of the talon and the next card is turned up for trumps.
2offensive, informal A black person.
〈非正式，冒犯〉黑人

Phrases

in spades

informal To a very high degree.
〈非正式〉极度地
he got his revenge now in spades
他现在彻底地复仇了。
Example sentencesExamples
- It is a gift, and this silver-tongued charmer has it in spades.
- Politically, this decision of Charles's is paying off in spades.
- Shaw's staff thought the world of him, and their loyalty was repaid in spades.
- Needless to say, to successfully achieve such remarkable feats required all four of the above virtues in spades.
- Try to avoid the obvious tourist traps as you'll miss out on the ambience and unique characters that more traditional halls have in spades.
- It called upon qualities that neither one of us has in spades, to kind of sell yourself and sell this product.
- And he has repaid that faith in spades, humility and understatement his trademark all season, on and off the field.
- Realize that whatever you do to me, I'm likely to do to you in spades.
- Sincerity isn't what normally comes to mind when talking about pop music, but these two sets of twins have it in spades.
- A lesser wine from one of the region's top producers, this delivers cherries, tea, acidity and tannins in spades.

Origin

Late 16th century: from Italian spade, plural of spada ‘sword’, via Latin from Greek spathē; compare with spade.

词汇	spade
释义	spade¹ noun speɪdspeɪd 1A tool with a sharp-edged, typically rectangular, metal blade and a long handle, used for digging or cutting earth, sand, turf, etc. 铲，锹 Example sentencesExamples The rules and regulations were explained and they were given basic digging implements - a spade and a fork. The hardware stores sold spades, forks, rakes and all sorts of farming implements. A few shiny buckets hung from a hook and some new tools, brushes, spades and shovels stood beside the door. For a start, get a good spade, with a long enough handle for your height. An electric bench grinder is the most efficient way to recover the cutting edges on shovels, spades, hoes, and lawn mower blades. He said they left behind tools they had used to damage the trees including a saw, a spade and a fork. Some 30 pupils, all aged 13 or 14, picked up spades and shovels to improve the school's landscape. The traditional square blade of a spade may derive from its historical use as a tool to cut peat, sod or soft garden soil, none of which provide much resistance to the blade. He merely turned over huge clods of earth with one twist of a big spade and left them there, weeds still intact. What may be a surprise is that the bottom of your foot hurts, bruised from stepping on the hard metal of the spade or fork repeatedly. Use a spading fork or shovel to lift clumps, then cut the clumps into sections with a spade, shovel, sharp knife, or pruning shears. Others are harder to deal with and have to be cut with a knife or the sharp edge of a spade if the clump is big. Volunteers will be very welcome on Wednesday evening and every other Wednesday and they are asked to bring along a spade, shovel, rake or brush because the first evening will be a general clean up. He prefers the Irish spade, with its longer, narrower blade, to English and American models. A good man to handle a shovel or spade, Eddie went quietly about his business, a gentleman throughout his life. If there is a moment, I still get my spades, forks and secateurs and go out and do some work. Hand tools such as spades, shovels and sickles, which currently attracted a 16 per cent excise duty, would also be fully exempted. Visitors seized the forks and spades that had been temptingly placed by a nasty patch of brambles and nettles and began to clear a new bed that will be used for pumpkins, sweet corn and tomatoes in a few weeks. Approaches to dwelling houses and farms were cleared by men with spades and shovels - bulldozers weren't part of the scene for several years afterwards. Armed with their metal detectors, spades and uncontrollable imaginations the assembled horde scattered to all corners of the field in search of treasure. Synonyms oar, scull, sweep, blade, spoon 1.1 A tool shaped like a spade but used for another purpose, especially one for removing the blubber from a whale. （尤指剖割鲸脂的）铲刀 1.2as modifier Shaped like a spade. 铲形的 a spade bit 铲形钻头。 Example sentencesExamples Your next step is drilling the latch hole on the edge of the door, using the specified spade bit. Other useful attachments include hole saw blades, spade bits, buffing disks and depth stops, screw driving bits, sanding disks, or even a power grinder. To drill counter-mounted faucet holes, use an electric drill and an appropriately sized hole saw or spade bit. The guns are actuated by a three-way switch on the spade grip of the stick. To drill the latch hole on the edge of the door, use the spade bit specified by the manufacturer. Try to remove some of the material first with a spade bit or drill bit. A set of standard mackerel feathers, often tied using spade end commercial haddock hooks, are ideal. All of the hooks I have seen show a simple round bend design with either an open eye or a spade end and have been made from iron. Then I will tend to revert to the neater spade end hook. Large bits, such as spade bits, will require a little more speed, up to as high as 5000 RPM. This leaves the unsupported spade rudder quite vulnerable to damage should it be grounded even in a soft bottom. Use a sharp spade bit to bore a 1-inch diameter hole through each end of every floorboard you have to replace. The spade bit, when used properly, works well on acrylic. She is very well mannered in conditions that would give fits to the helmsmen of modem boats with high aspect fin keels and spade rudders. verb speɪdspeɪd [with object] 1Dig over (ground) with a spade. 用锹挖（地） while spading the soil, I think of the flowers 我铲地的时候，一直留意着那些花朵。 Example sentencesExamples He wanted to spade his potato garden, but it was very hard work. In the spring she spaded a garden, but the carrots bent as if they'd hit metal and slugs tattered the lettuce. Seeds should be broadcast in the fall or early spring in well-drained sandy soil that has been well spaded or raked. And by the end of the landscaping season, I was lifting 30 pounds of lime and soil and spading flower beds. We have also tried our roller on a wheat cover crop before planting soybeans, but it had little effect on the small weeds in the wheat and we ended up spading that ground before planting the soybeans. Synonyms cultivate, till, harrow, plough, turn over, work, break up 1.1with object and adverbial of direction Move (soil) with a spade. 用锹挖（地） earth is spaded into the grave 土被铲进墓穴中。 Example sentencesExamples Dressed in yellow jackets, trousers and rubber boots, visitors can find excitement in spading gold-bearing sand and gravel into a metal pail. ‘We propped up one end of the screen on a wheelbarrow and spaded the plants, compost and all, up onto the frame,’ she says. Phrases call a spade a spade Speak plainly without avoiding unpleasant or embarrassing issues. 直言不讳 it is time to name names and call a spade a spade Example sentencesExamples They had the greatest difficulty in calling a spade a spade or a killing a killing: rather it was ‘expressing violence’. And the president should not be criticized for being a straight shooter and calling a spade a spade. So at one level this is an issue of clarity; the simple business of calling a spade a spade. Given the enormous amount of evidence that supports that conclusion, I just don't think it's reasonable to say that calling a spade a spade in this case is ‘hackneyed, inappropriate and immature.’ She has people rooting for her in this country simply because she calls a spade a spade. It's high time people started calling a spade a spade. A source described him as extremely straightforward, somebody who calls a spade a spade and has no hidden agenda. Finally a report that calls a spade a spade on the country's dangerous love affair with the demon drink. He called a spade a spade and in many ways was an archetypal Yorkshireman - blunt and straight to the point. After a while, we started to talk and I began to like him, because he's funny and he's straightforward and he calls a spade a spade. Synonyms insensitive, inconsiderate, thoughtless, unthinking, indelicate, undiplomatic, impolitic, indiscreet, unsubtle, clumsy, heavy-handed, graceless, awkward, unpolished, inept, bungling, maladroit, gauche, undiscerning, unsophisticated Derivatives spadeful nounPlural spadefuls ˈspeɪdfʊl And they cannot put more than one spadeful of rubbish in each bag as it may tear. Example sentencesExamples This hypothesis crumbled at the first spadeful below the topsoil. Choose an open, sunny spot with a moisture-retentive, well-drained soil and dig over the earth to remove all weeds before adding a few spadefuls of organic matter. You'll use much less soil if you find a way to keep the soil where you want it rather than having each spadeful cascade all over the place. Short removes two spadefuls of sand and black, viscous oil slowly begins to fill the new pit. Origin Old English spadu, spada, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch spade, German Spaten, also to Greek spathē 'blade, paddle'. A spade for digging is related to Greek spathē ‘blade or paddle’ and has been in the language since Anglo-Saxon times, while the spade that appears on a playing card dates from the 16th century. The latter is based on Italian spada ‘a broad-bladed sword’, though the design (a black upside-down heart shape with a stalk) looks more like a pointed spade than a sword. To call a spade a spade, ‘to speak plainly, without avoiding unpleasant or embarrassing issues’, dates from the mid 16th century. In The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), Oscar Wilde has the nicely brought up Miss Gwendolen Fairfax respond to this: ‘I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade’. A tongue-in-cheek variation, dating from the early 20th century, is call a spade a shovel. In spades means ‘to a very high degree’, or ‘as much as or more than could be desired’, and comes from the card game bridge, in which spades are the highest-ranking suit. Rhymes abrade, afraid, aid, aide, ambuscade, arcade, balustrade, barricade, Belgrade, blade, blockade, braid, brigade, brocade, cannonade, carronade, cascade, cavalcade, cockade, colonnade, crusade, dissuade, downgrade, enfilade, esplanade, evade, fade, fusillade, glade, grade, grenade, grillade, handmade, harlequinade, homemade, invade, jade, lade, laid, lemonade, limeade, made, maid, man-made, marinade, masquerade, newlaid, orangeade, paid, palisade, parade, pasquinade, persuade, pervade, raid, serenade, shade, Sinéad, staid, stockade, stock-in-trade, suede, tailor-made, they'd, tirade, trade, Ubaid, underpaid, undismayed, unplayed, unsprayed, unswayed, upbraid, upgrade, wade spade² noun speɪdspeɪd 1a spadeOne of the four suits in a conventional pack of playing cards, denoted by a black inverted heart-shaped figure with a small stalk. （纸牌中的）黑桃 Example sentencesExamples Diamonds are highest, followed by clubs, then spades, then hearts. They cannot take a trick, and are great to have when you don't want to play that Queen of spades. If at anytime the queen of spades is dealt face up, the game resets and the pot stays in. There is no ranking between the suits - so for example the king of hearts and the king of spades are equal. In all four trump structures, the queen of clubs is the highest card, the 7 of trump second, and the queen of spades third. If spades are trumps then an extra double is automatically applied to the final scores. Each heart scores one point, and the queen of spades scores 13 points. Because of the difference in score, clubs and diamonds are called the minor suits and hearts and spades are the major suits. In this case the player with the ace of spades can call. The audience could see it was four of spades though not the magician. An Ace of hearts would lose to it, but a two of spades would beat the joker. The trump suit is clubs if all three succeeded, hearts if two, spades if one or diamonds if no-one fulfilled their contract. When the reserve cards are equal the suits rank in descending order: spades, hearts, diamonds, clubs. He led the four of spades and East won with the king. Some players play with only one joker, but use the deuce of spades as permanent second highest trump in the game. The Queen of spades may be placed only on the King of spades. Normally, a standard deck's 52 cards are divided equally among four suits: spades, clubs, diamonds, and hearts. Once the nine of spades is played, then the ten may be played, and so on. If your pack of cards has no joker, the two of spades can be used as a substitute. The ace of spades is the most powerful card, irrespective of what suit is trumps. 1.1a spade A card of the suit of spades. Example sentencesExamples Lots of low spades are usually good but can win lots of hearts. For example, if you expose the queen of spades, then the first time that someone leads a spade you are not allowed to play the queen if you have other spades. You are not allowed to nominate a suit in which you have previously shown void - for example if you have previously discarded a diamond on a spade lead by someone else, you cannot later lead the joker and call it a spade. If the knock card is a spade, the points are doubled The trump maker leads a spade which player A wins with the ace, becoming the first partner. If the player on lead has no ace, a spade must be led. In no trump bids, the two of spades resumes its normal function as a spade. Player 3 is allowed to play the club even though he has a spade. Consequently, when a player claims his seventh card, he should do this by putting it face up on top of the first six cards claimed, and it must be a spade. Take out of the deck three clubs, diamonds, hearts and spades for every player. If the first card is not a spade, then player 3 then plays a card. The player to dealer's left leads any card except a spade to the first trick. But suppose that after looking at your first four cards, they're all spades. Between equal ranked pairs, the pair containing the spade is higher, irrespective of the suit of the other card. Also, because he knows that player two's card is already a spade, he turns over all the cards that aren't spades as well. The trumps are a suit of their own for suit following purposes - for example, in a normal game, the queen of spades is a trump, not a spade. If a spade is turned it is put back in the middle of the talon and the next card is turned up for trumps. The other players must all play spades if they can, but players 2 and 3 have no spades and so are allowed to play other suits. He dropped a spade on the first card and looked at her as she tossed another on top of his. You have a pair of kings, three spades, and no chance for a straight. 2offensive, informal A black person. 〈非正式，冒犯〉黑人 Phrases in spades informal To a very high degree. 〈非正式〉极度地 he got his revenge now in spades 他现在彻底地复仇了。 Example sentencesExamples It called upon qualities that neither one of us has in spades, to kind of sell yourself and sell this product. Shaw's staff thought the world of him, and their loyalty was repaid in spades. Try to avoid the obvious tourist traps as you'll miss out on the ambience and unique characters that more traditional halls have in spades. Realize that whatever you do to me, I'm likely to do to you in spades. And he has repaid that faith in spades, humility and understatement his trademark all season, on and off the field. Needless to say, to successfully achieve such remarkable feats required all four of the above virtues in spades. A lesser wine from one of the region's top producers, this delivers cherries, tea, acidity and tannins in spades. It is a gift, and this silver-tongued charmer has it in spades. Sincerity isn't what normally comes to mind when talking about pop music, but these two sets of twins have it in spades. Politically, this decision of Charles's is paying off in spades. Origin Late 16th century: from Italian spade, plural of spada 'sword', via Latin from Greek spathē; compare with spade¹. noun.1 phr. noun.2 phr. spade¹ nounspādspeɪd 1A tool with a sharp-edged, typically rectangular, metal blade and a long handle, used for digging or cutting earth, sand, turf, etc. 铲，锹 Example sentencesExamples If there is a moment, I still get my spades, forks and secateurs and go out and do some work. Approaches to dwelling houses and farms were cleared by men with spades and shovels - bulldozers weren't part of the scene for several years afterwards. Volunteers will be very welcome on Wednesday evening and every other Wednesday and they are asked to bring along a spade, shovel, rake or brush because the first evening will be a general clean up. Visitors seized the forks and spades that had been temptingly placed by a nasty patch of brambles and nettles and began to clear a new bed that will be used for pumpkins, sweet corn and tomatoes in a few weeks. Hand tools such as spades, shovels and sickles, which currently attracted a 16 per cent excise duty, would also be fully exempted. For a start, get a good spade, with a long enough handle for your height. Some 30 pupils, all aged 13 or 14, picked up spades and shovels to improve the school's landscape. The traditional square blade of a spade may derive from its historical use as a tool to cut peat, sod or soft garden soil, none of which provide much resistance to the blade. He prefers the Irish spade, with its longer, narrower blade, to English and American models. Use a spading fork or shovel to lift clumps, then cut the clumps into sections with a spade, shovel, sharp knife, or pruning shears. Armed with their metal detectors, spades and uncontrollable imaginations the assembled horde scattered to all corners of the field in search of treasure. Others are harder to deal with and have to be cut with a knife or the sharp edge of a spade if the clump is big. The rules and regulations were explained and they were given basic digging implements - a spade and a fork. A good man to handle a shovel or spade, Eddie went quietly about his business, a gentleman throughout his life. An electric bench grinder is the most efficient way to recover the cutting edges on shovels, spades, hoes, and lawn mower blades. The hardware stores sold spades, forks, rakes and all sorts of farming implements. He said they left behind tools they had used to damage the trees including a saw, a spade and a fork. What may be a surprise is that the bottom of your foot hurts, bruised from stepping on the hard metal of the spade or fork repeatedly. He merely turned over huge clods of earth with one twist of a big spade and left them there, weeds still intact. A few shiny buckets hung from a hook and some new tools, brushes, spades and shovels stood beside the door. Synonyms oar, scull, sweep, blade, spoon 1.1 A tool with a shape similar to a spade for another purpose, especially one for removing the blubber from a whale. （尤指剖割鲸脂的）铲刀 verbspādspeɪd [with object] 1Dig in (ground) with a spade. 用锹挖（地） while spading the soil, I think of the flowers 我铲地的时候，一直留意着那些花朵。 Example sentencesExamples Seeds should be broadcast in the fall or early spring in well-drained sandy soil that has been well spaded or raked. In the spring she spaded a garden, but the carrots bent as if they'd hit metal and slugs tattered the lettuce. We have also tried our roller on a wheat cover crop before planting soybeans, but it had little effect on the small weeds in the wheat and we ended up spading that ground before planting the soybeans. He wanted to spade his potato garden, but it was very hard work. And by the end of the landscaping season, I was lifting 30 pounds of lime and soil and spading flower beds. Synonyms cultivate, till, harrow, plough, turn over, work, break up 1.1 Move (soil) with a spade. 用锹挖（地） earth is spaded into the grave 土被铲进墓穴中。 Example sentencesExamples ‘We propped up one end of the screen on a wheelbarrow and spaded the plants, compost and all, up onto the frame,’ she says. Dressed in yellow jackets, trousers and rubber boots, visitors can find excitement in spading gold-bearing sand and gravel into a metal pail. Phrases call a spade a spade Speak plainly without avoiding unpleasant or embarrassing issues. 直言不讳 Example sentencesExamples Given the enormous amount of evidence that supports that conclusion, I just don't think it's reasonable to say that calling a spade a spade in this case is ‘hackneyed, inappropriate and immature.’ Finally a report that calls a spade a spade on the country's dangerous love affair with the demon drink. A source described him as extremely straightforward, somebody who calls a spade a spade and has no hidden agenda. They had the greatest difficulty in calling a spade a spade or a killing a killing: rather it was ‘expressing violence’. He called a spade a spade and in many ways was an archetypal Yorkshireman - blunt and straight to the point. It's high time people started calling a spade a spade. So at one level this is an issue of clarity; the simple business of calling a spade a spade. She has people rooting for her in this country simply because she calls a spade a spade. And the president should not be criticized for being a straight shooter and calling a spade a spade. After a while, we started to talk and I began to like him, because he's funny and he's straightforward and he calls a spade a spade. Synonyms insensitive, inconsiderate, thoughtless, unthinking, indelicate, undiplomatic, impolitic, indiscreet, unsubtle, clumsy, heavy-handed, graceless, awkward, unpolished, inept, bungling, maladroit, gauche, undiscerning, unsophisticated Origin Old English spadu, spada, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch spade, German Spaten, also to Greek spathē ‘blade, paddle’. spade² nounspādspeɪd 1spadesOne of the four suits in a conventional deck of playing cards, denoted by a black inverted heart-shaped figure with a short stalk. （纸牌中的）黑桃 Example sentencesExamples Some players play with only one joker, but use the deuce of spades as permanent second highest trump in the game. Normally, a standard deck's 52 cards are divided equally among four suits: spades, clubs, diamonds, and hearts. The ace of spades is the most powerful card, irrespective of what suit is trumps. Diamonds are highest, followed by clubs, then spades, then hearts. Each heart scores one point, and the queen of spades scores 13 points. Because of the difference in score, clubs and diamonds are called the minor suits and hearts and spades are the major suits. If at anytime the queen of spades is dealt face up, the game resets and the pot stays in. When the reserve cards are equal the suits rank in descending order: spades, hearts, diamonds, clubs. In all four trump structures, the queen of clubs is the highest card, the 7 of trump second, and the queen of spades third. The trump suit is clubs if all three succeeded, hearts if two, spades if one or diamonds if no-one fulfilled their contract. The Queen of spades may be placed only on the King of spades. There is no ranking between the suits - so for example the king of hearts and the king of spades are equal. If your pack of cards has no joker, the two of spades can be used as a substitute. Once the nine of spades is played, then the ten may be played, and so on. If spades are trumps then an extra double is automatically applied to the final scores. An Ace of hearts would lose to it, but a two of spades would beat the joker. In this case the player with the ace of spades can call. They cannot take a trick, and are great to have when you don't want to play that Queen of spades. He led the four of spades and East won with the king. The audience could see it was four of spades though not the magician. 1.1 A playing card of the suit of spades. Example sentencesExamples But suppose that after looking at your first four cards, they're all spades. If the first card is not a spade, then player 3 then plays a card. Lots of low spades are usually good but can win lots of hearts. The player to dealer's left leads any card except a spade to the first trick. For example, if you expose the queen of spades, then the first time that someone leads a spade you are not allowed to play the queen if you have other spades. You are not allowed to nominate a suit in which you have previously shown void - for example if you have previously discarded a diamond on a spade lead by someone else, you cannot later lead the joker and call it a spade. Consequently, when a player claims his seventh card, he should do this by putting it face up on top of the first six cards claimed, and it must be a spade. The other players must all play spades if they can, but players 2 and 3 have no spades and so are allowed to play other suits. The trumps are a suit of their own for suit following purposes - for example, in a normal game, the queen of spades is a trump, not a spade. He dropped a spade on the first card and looked at her as she tossed another on top of his. Between equal ranked pairs, the pair containing the spade is higher, irrespective of the suit of the other card. The trump maker leads a spade which player A wins with the ace, becoming the first partner. Player 3 is allowed to play the club even though he has a spade. Take out of the deck three clubs, diamonds, hearts and spades for every player. You have a pair of kings, three spades, and no chance for a straight. In no trump bids, the two of spades resumes its normal function as a spade. Also, because he knows that player two's card is already a spade, he turns over all the cards that aren't spades as well. If the knock card is a spade, the points are doubled If the player on lead has no ace, a spade must be led. If a spade is turned it is put back in the middle of the talon and the next card is turned up for trumps. 2offensive, informal A black person. 〈非正式，冒犯〉黑人 Phrases in spades informal To a very high degree. 〈非正式〉极度地 he got his revenge now in spades 他现在彻底地复仇了。 Example sentencesExamples It is a gift, and this silver-tongued charmer has it in spades. Politically, this decision of Charles's is paying off in spades. Shaw's staff thought the world of him, and their loyalty was repaid in spades. Needless to say, to successfully achieve such remarkable feats required all four of the above virtues in spades. Try to avoid the obvious tourist traps as you'll miss out on the ambience and unique characters that more traditional halls have in spades. It called upon qualities that neither one of us has in spades, to kind of sell yourself and sell this product. And he has repaid that faith in spades, humility and understatement his trademark all season, on and off the field. Realize that whatever you do to me, I'm likely to do to you in spades. Sincerity isn't what normally comes to mind when talking about pop music, but these two sets of twins have it in spades. A lesser wine from one of the region's top producers, this delivers cherries, tea, acidity and tannins in spades. Origin Late 16th century: from Italian spade, plural of spada ‘sword’, via Latin from Greek spathē; compare with spade. noun.1 phr. noun.2 phr.
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