Spade

(noun.) a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot.

(noun.) a playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it; 'she led a low spade'; 'spades were trumps'.

(verb.) dig (up) with a spade; 'I spade compost into the flower beds'.

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• Is the man born yet, is the spade wrought yet? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Soon he discovered a spade hidden by the underbrush which they had laid upon the grave. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Instead of entering the house at once he fetched a spade from a little shed and began to work in the garden. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Tired, I suppose, with her importunity, he threw down his spade, approached, and pushed the door ajar. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• One of them ran for a spade; the other two assisted George to carry the body to the wagon. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• With such a history how could a nation fail to see in its constitution anything but a tool of life, like the axe, the spade or the plough? 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• All was now ready for the pick and spade. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Where are the digger and the spade, this peaceful night, destined to add the last great secret to the many secrets of the Tulkinghorn existence? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The lantern, the spade, and the wicker bottle were found, that day, in the churchyard. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• It is a device as necessary to the industrial growth of man as the axe or the spade. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Clubs, not spades, are trumps, said Lawrence. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• A child sees persons with whom he lives using chairs, hats, tables, spades, saws, plows, horses, money in certain ways. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• There were ploughs which were made heavy or light as the different soils required, and there were a variety of farm implements, such as spades, hoes, harrows and rakes. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• And then our spades showed us that SOMETHING had been buried beneath the corpse, for a hole had been there and it had been filled with loose earth. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• He had no tools to work with except those of the pioneers--axes, picks, and spades. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.

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