spade
n. 铁锹,铲子; (纸牌中的)黑桃
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。
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
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.
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。
1. a playing card in the major suit of spades
2. a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot
3. (ethnic slur) offensive name for a Black person;
1. dig (up) with a spade;
call a spade a spade
直言不讳
in spades
在很大程度上
The spade clanged when it hit the rock.
铁锹铲在石头上发出当的一声.
He was an old man, and each time he thrust his spade earth, he heaved heavily.
这是一位老人, 农活显然是艰苦的,他每锄地一次, 都要沉重地再次举起铁锹.
She led a low spade.
她出了一张小黑桃.
He prefered, in his grandiloquent way , to call a spade a spade.
他喜欢夸夸其谈地谈出事实的真相来.
This spade is five yuan.
这把铲子售价五元.