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.
Bones were carved into needles and tools, and the teeth were used to make necklaces.
骨头则雕琢成针和工具,牙齿用来作项链。
Kunta had been seized in the forest and then hit on the head with a hard object.
孔塔在森林里被抓住以后,他的头部就被一个硬的东西打了一下。
If an unfair law existed, - and there were many that had been passed by the British rulers in India and South Africa - it was the duty of everyone to disobey this law, but without using violence.