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.
While the men had been working inside the ship, the air-line had been giving off oxygen.
当工人们的在船舱里干活时,供气管一直在排放氧气。
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