spades

英 [speɪdz]

美 [speɪdz]

n.  锹; 铲; (纸牌中的)黑桃; 黑桃牌
spade的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 铲;锹
  Aspadeis a tool used for digging, with a flat metal blade and a long handle.
  1. ... a garden spade...
     园艺铲
  2. The girls happily played in the sand with buckets and spades.
     女孩子们拿着桶和铲子在沙滩上快活地玩耍。
• N-UNCOUNT-COLL (纸牌中的)黑桃
  Spadesis one of the four suits in a pack of playing cards. Each card in the suit is marked with one or more black symbols: .
  1. ...the ace of spades.
     黑桃 A
  2. Aspadeis a playing card of this suit.
     (一张)黑桃牌
• PHRASE 有啥说啥;直言不讳
  If you say that someonecalls a spade a spade, you mean that they speak clearly and directly about things, even embarrassing or unpleasant things.
  1. I'm not at all secretive, and I'm pretty good at calling a spade a spade.
     我不会遮遮掩掩，我喜欢直言不讳。

双语例句

• In bidding, the suits rank spades, hearts, diamonds and clubs.
  在叫牌时，花色的大小顺序是黑桃、红桃、方块和草花。
• It means Hearts, Spades, Diamonds or Clubs.
  它意味着红心、黑桃、红方块、或者梅花。
• What business has a pick and a shovel here? Formerly the coal was dug with picks and spades.
  这里要锹和镐头干什么？从前用镐和铁锹采煤。
• Which suit do you want to have trumps? Hearts, diamonds, spades or clubs?
  你想要哪种花样作王牌？红心，方块，黑桃还是梅花。
• The men were carrying spades and measuring sticks.
  那些人拿着铁锹和量尺。
• We have a new kitten and it's as black as the ace of spades.
  我们又有了一只小猫，它浑身一团黑色。
• Okay, so that's diamonds, hearts, spades and clubs.
  好的，那是方片，桃心，铁锹和梅花。
• We mighf win the rubber if we played the spades.
  我们要是打黑挑，就可能赢一局了。
• Children carrying their buckets and spades to the beach.
  带着桶和锹去海滨的孩子们。
• I love the black holes cover because it breaks that rule – in spades – and it sold well.
  我喜爱这张黑洞封面，因为它非常肯定地打破了这一原则，并且销售良好。