spade

There's a strong scour with the ebb, ' he said, 'and this here passage has been dug out, in a manner of speaking, with a spade.

“退潮时这里水冲得急，”他说，“把这里的入口挖了，可以说就像铲子铲似的。”

He levers it out with the spade, carries on with digging.

他用铁锹把它撬出来，然后继续挖掘。

What I appreciate most about him is that he is not afraid to call a spade a spade in any situation.

我最欣赏他的一点是他在任何情况下都直言不讳。

The hermit thanked him, handed the emperor the spade, and then sat down on the ground to rest.

智者道谢并给他铁锹，然后坐在旁边休息了。

His spade struck against something heavy, which proved to BE gold, a great heap which some miser had probably buried in a time of alarm.

他的铁锹一下子碰到一堆沉甸甸的东西，一看，原来是金子，多半是哪个守财奴在乱世埋藏起来的。

Going to the garage, he fetched a spade and began digging in the garden. He had to finish before she got home.

走到车库里，他找到一把铲子，就开始在花园里挖洞。他得在妈妈回家之前把一切搞定。

Instead she was holding a small spade and began to dig into the carpet, pushing it away to each side as if making a furrow to sow seeds.

而是她握着一个小铲子，开始在地毯上挖掘，把它推到两侧，好像犁出一道沟缝去播种。

As he slams the spade back into the base of the trough, she turns away on the dry sole of her foot.

他把铁锹掷回沟底，她蹬着干巴巴的脚掌，转身走了。

The family initially took just one holiday a year, with a traditional bucket and spade affair each summer at the seaside.

最初，全家每年休息一个假期，并且常常是在夏天，带着小桶和小铲到海边去玩。

" Wife, " he said, " bring me the spade we use to dig the garden with! "

“老婆子，”他说，“把我们挖园子用的那把铁锹给我拿来。”

This reluctance to call a spade a spade reflects an inability to reckon with changes the US and Europe have to make to avoid a repeat.

西方领导人在这一点上不愿实事求是，这反映出，他们不可能认真思考美欧为避免危机重演而不得不进行的改革。

Stretched naked on a long table lay the body of Henry Armstrong, the head defiled with blood and clay from a blow with a spade.

在一个长桌上，亨利·阿姆斯特朗的赤裸尸身紧绷绷地躺在那里，而头部沾满了血迹和泥土，那显然是遭铁铲击打所致。

He hit me with a garden spade, the little prick.

他打了一个带花园铲，小刺我。

He hurried home to bring a spade, but when he got to the rath again he could not find the spot where he had seen it.

他急忙跑回家去拿锹，但回到寨子以后，他却再也找不到埋藏宝藏的地方了。

On the table to a A spade and a club A magician began regular licensing, phenomena: the magician with a deck of playing cards.

桌面上放一张黑桃A和一张梅花A魔术师开始整齐的发牌，现象：魔术师手拿一副扑克牌。

As soon as a covered wagon halted at a new homestead, the head of the family took out his spade.

一旦一辆有篷马车在一块新宅地上停下来，一家之长便拿出铲子。

Now on the market it is difficult to see a muddy radish, lotus root, vendors call a spade a spade: " too dirty dishes no one wants. "

现在的市场上很难看到带泥的萝卜、藕了，商贩们直言不讳：“太脏的菜没人稀罕。”

"We call a spade as a spade, " he told me when I visited recently as part of a delegation of American editors and academics.

“打开天窗说亮话，”当我最近以委任编辑兼学者和他碰面时和我提到。

Invetiably, the children help out to lift a brick here or carry a spade there.

孩子难免要帮着搬砖或拿铲子。

Things would be better if Japan were now readier to call a slave's spade a spade.

如果日本如今更愿意以开诚布公的态度谈论历史，那么情况将有所好转。