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。
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。
spade
[ noun ]
a playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it
<noun.artifact> she led a low spade spades were trumps
a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot
<noun.artifact>
(ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person
<noun.person> only a Black can call another Black a nigga [ verb ]
dig (up) with a spade
<verb.contact> I spade compost into the flower beds
Spade \Spade\ (sp[=a]d), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spaded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Spading}.] To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade.
Spade \Spade\, n. [Cf. {Spay}, n.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) A hart or stag three years old. [Written also {spaid}, {spayade}.]
2. [Cf. L. spado.] A castrated man or beast.
Spade \Spade\, n. [AS. sp[ae]d; spada; akin to D. spade, G. spaten, Icel. spa[eth]i, Dan. & Sw. spade, L. spatha a spatula, a broad two-edged sword, a spathe, Gr. spa`qh. Cf. {Epaulet}, {Spade} at cards, {Spathe}, {Spatula}.] 1. An implement for digging or cutting the ground, consisting usually of an oblong and nearly rectangular blade of iron, with a handle like that of a shovel. ``With spade and pickax armed.'' --Milton.
2. [Sp. espada, literally, a sword; -- so caused because these cards among the Spanish bear the figure of a sword. Sp. espada is fr. L. spatha, Gr. spa`qh. See the Etymology above.] One of that suit of cards each of which bears one or more figures resembling a spade.
``Let spades be trumps!'' she said. --Pope.
3. A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
{Spade bayonet}, a bayonet with a broad blade which may be used digging; -- called also {trowel bayonet}.
{Spade handle} (Mach.), the forked end of a connecting rod in which a pin is held at both ends. See Illust. of {Knuckle joint}, under {Knuckle}.
Alas, the simple fact of being menaced with my own spade has warped my catalog reading.
All the while, the angels knew why it was needed. The pen, we all know, is mightier than the sword: usually, it is less of a match for the spade.
He will take part in a seminar on "Conserving our Heritage" at the Washington National Cathedral on Saturday, visit an ecology fair on the cathedral grounds and plant a tree using a spade used by the Prince of Wales in 1919 for a similar purpose.
"What weapon?" the cop asked. "My gardening spade."
It called a spade a spade.
It called a spade a spade.
Or do you trust to your eye and your spade and then dig, more or less as the spirit moves you? Having succumbed to the latter form of garden 'design' in an acre of rough grass a decade ago, I now adhere firmly to the planning school.
Pieces may look woody and miserable, but they soon grow away like mad. As most plants now cost Pounds 2 or more apiece, it pays to strike out with a spade this weekend.