spade
n. 鐵鍬,鏟子; (紙牌中的)黑桃
A spade is a tool used for digging, with a flat metal blade and a long handle.
... a garden spade...
園藝鏟
The girls happily played in the sand with buckets and spades.
女孩子們拿著桶和鏟子在沙灘上快活地玩耍。
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.
我不會遮遮掩掩,我喜歡直言不諱。
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
直言不諱
in spades
在很大程度上
The spade clanged when it hit the rock.
鐵鍬鏟在石頭上發出噹的一聲.
He was an old man, and each time he thrust his spade earth, he heaved heavily.
這是一位老人, 農活顯然是艱苦的,他每鋤地一次, 都要沉重地再次舉起鐵鍬.
She led a low spade.
她出了一張小黑桃.
He prefered, in his grandiloquent way , to call a spade a spade.
他喜歡誇誇其談地談出事實的真相來.
This spade is five yuan.
這把鏟子售價五元.