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.
That's right. We will take 10 pigs, 10 sheep and sixty chickens. The chickens can eat the food that we would otherwise throw away. They will provide us with eggs and meat.
没错。我们要带上10头猪、10只羊还有60只鸡。鸡吃我们的剩饭剩菜。它们为我们提供蛋和肉。
But I was delighted to be able to say words that my family and a few friends could understand.
是,我却感到欣喜,能够说出我家里人和一些朋友可以理解的词语。
All the bees that had been at the nearby place were doing the circling dance.