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词汇 wooden-spoon
释义 the wooden spoon
noun[ S ]
UKinformaluk /ˌwʊd.ən ˈspuːn/ us /ˌwʊd.ən ˈspuːn/
the imaginary prize that a person or team is given if they finish last in a race or competition: (比赛的)末名奖
Our college team took the wooden spoon in the inter-collegiate league this season.我们校队在本赛季的校际联盟比赛中取得了末名奖。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Prizes, rewards and medals
(the/a pot of gold at) the end of the rainbowidiom
Academy Award
award
bemedalled
blue ribbon
booby prize
bronze
colour
crown
gong
grab bag
Grammy
hand something out
platinum disc
prize
Pulitzer Prize
Purple Heart
rainbow
stake
the golden boot

Examples of the wooden spoon


the wooden spoon
A winless season in 1903 meant that they took home their first woodenspoon.
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She gave birth to a girl who carried a woodenspoon in her hand and rode upon a goat.
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Sangria is often served with a woodenspoon, used to get fruit out of the bottom of the punchbowl or pitcher.
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Things went from bad to worse for the club in 2005 when the team finished with the woodenspoon for the first time since 1979.
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They then pressed the linen against the newsprint by firmly rubbing with the flat side of a woodenspoon.
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Participants were presented with a standard object made from a certain material and having a certain shape, for example, a woodenspoon.
A common laboratory equipment agitator-heater was replaced by a gas stove and manual agitation with the aid of a woodenspoon.
Nothing but a woodenspoon would be safe.
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The woodenspoon—the consolation prize of £10—is a substantial bonus to people who have bought tickets.
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I cannot overturn in terms of student funding and funding for universities the difference between the silver spoon that some children are born with and the woodenspoon of others.
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I myself have stood by a man who was stirring glycerine and nitric and sulphuric acid with a woodenspoon, and a very dangerous work it was.
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Labour offers only the woodenspoon of higher taxes, higher spending and lower growth.
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I understand that it is illegal to have any wooden equipment in the kitchen; one cannot use a wooden chopping board or, which is worse, a woodenspoon.
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Consequently, he has won the woodenspoon.
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Recently, we had a court case because a parent had smacked a child three times with a woodenspoon even though there was nothing to see.
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