spade

詞意辨析：

spade, shovel

這兩個名詞均可表示“鏟，鐵，鍬”之意。
spade: 指用於挖土刨地的鏟子或鐵鍬。
shovel: 指用鏟煤塊、煤渣、沙雪或糖等鏟子，有大有小。

英文解釋：

名詞 spade:

1. a playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it
2. a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot
3. (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person
   同義詞：nigger, nigga, coon, jigaboo, nigra

動詞 spade:

1. dig (up) with a spade

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詞型變化：

名詞:spader 動詞過去式:spaded 過去分詞:spaded 現在分詞:spading 第三人稱單數:spades 

例句：

1. Why did you buy a spade?
   你買鐵　乾什麽?
2. Just give him a bucket and spade and he's in seventh heaven!
   只要給他一個桶子和一把鏟子，他就高興極了！
3. We dig some pits with a spade before planting the trees.
   種樹前，我們先用鐵鍬挖了些坑。
4. He told me the whole story in spades and there's no doubt about it.
   他明確地把整個經過都對我講了，一點不含糊。
5. Orders came that we should spade the trench in an hour.
   有命令要我們必須在一小時內挖好戰壕。