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词汇 shovel
释义 shovel
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈʃʌv.əl/ us /ˈʃʌv.əl/
C2
a tool consisting of a wide, square metal or plastic blade, usually with slightly raised sides, attached to a handle, for moving loose material such as sand, coal, or snow铲
 
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a similar part on a large machine, for picking up and holding loose material(大机器的)铲斗
 
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(alsoshovelful)
the amount of something that can fit on a shovel: 一铲(的量)
Should I put another shovelful of coal on the fire?我需要往火上再加一铲煤吗?
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Machines - parts
Measurements of volume: informal
shovel
verb[ I or T ]
uk /ˈʃʌv.əl/ us /ˈʃʌv.əl/-ll- or US usually-l-
to move with a shovel: 铲起;用铲子移动(或移开)
Would you give me a hand shovelling the snow away from the garage door?你能帮我把车库门前的雪铲走吗?
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Removing and extracting
ablate
abstract
abstraction
bowdlerization
bowdlerized
drain
extraction
extrication
filterable
filtration
fish something out
gouge something out
peel
root something out/up
rout someone out
scoop something out
slice
slice something off
snowploughing
wipe

Idiom


shovel something into your mouth

shovel | American Dictionary


shovel
noun[ C ]
us/ˈʃʌv·əl/
a tool consisting of a wide blade attached to a long handle, used for digging up or moving loose material, such as earth or snow

shovel


verb[ T ]us/ˈʃʌv·əl/
Sally is outside shoveling snow away from the driveway.

Examples of shovel


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Bonfires and rusting shovels look quite different, but the underlying mechanism that produces them is exactly the same: oxidization.
Too often the popular misconception has been that council operations are typified by workmen leaning on shovels.
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Finally, aid must be provided in a way that gives those economies a long-term future, rather than shovelling money for no proper purpose.
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They provided a method of proceeding against persons who shovelled garbage into harbours.
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In most cases this is done, although sometimes the fireman has to be employed on his task of shovelling in coal.
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They were shovelling money abroad because they could make a faster buck there than by investing in the people of this country.
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Are 20 or 30 people to take picks and shovels and set out and do it?
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They borrowed picks and shovels, in the dark.
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They shovelled out £24,000,000 or £25,000,000 to the coal industry, which was sheer waste, and they did nothing whatever to help its economic reorganisation.
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Now he has to fight him with pickaxes and shovels.
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They were shovelled by agreement of the parties in thousands into certain divisions arbitrarily chosen with which they had no connection.
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However, these days pupils are shovelled out of the school building as soon as the ink has dried on the examination papers.
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We have mobilised bulldozers, scrapers and shovels for open-cast mining.
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Any modern doctor will readily agree that food shovelled down children's mouths loses a substantial portion of its benefit.
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With regard to certain types of expense, money can be shovelled out, for camps and other things.
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