spade

spade, shovel

这两个名词均可表示“铲，铁，锹”之意。
spade: 指用于挖土刨地的铲子或铁锹。
shovel: 指用铲煤块、煤渣、沙雪或糖等铲子，有大有小。

名词 spade:

1. a playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it
2. a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot
3. (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person
   同义词：nigger, nigga, coon, jigaboo, nigra

动词 spade:

1. dig (up) with a spade

1. Why did you buy a spade?
   你买铁　干什麽?
2. Just give him a bucket and spade and he's in seventh heaven!
   只要给他一个桶子和一把铲子，他就高兴极了！
3. We dig some pits with a spade before planting the trees.
   种树前，我们先用铁锹挖了些坑。
4. He told me the whole story in spades and there's no doubt about it.
   他明确地把整个经过都对我讲了，一点不含糊。
5. Orders came that we should spade the trench in an hour.
   有命令要我们必须在一小时内挖好战壕。