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A shovel is a tool with a wide, flat blade and a long handle, used for digging or moving loose material like dirt, sand, or snow. As a verb, to shovel means to move something with a shovel, like shoveling snow off a driveway. In casual speech, "to shovel food into your mouth" means to eat very quickly and without much care, as if you were using a shovel instead of a fork.
鏟子(名詞);鏟(動詞)
組成From an old English word for a digging tool. It does not split into smaller pieces.
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
shovelnoun/ˈʃʌv.əl/
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A hand tool with a handle, used for moving portions of material such as earth, snow, and grain from one place to another, with some forms also used for digging. In strict usage differentiated from a spade, which is designed solely for small-scale digging and incidental tasks such as chopping of small roots.
- It was said that such train crews kept a spare shovel on board because, on numerous occasions, the beginner had not only zealously thrown coal into the firebox but had let the shovel go as well.
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A mechanical part of an excavator with a similar function.
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Any shovel in the above senses, or any spade.
shovelverb/ˈʃʌv.əl/
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To move materials with a shovel.
- The workers were shovelling gravel and tarmac into the pothole in the road.
- After the blizzard, we shoveled the driveway for the next two days.
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To move with a shoveling motion.
- Already late for work, I shovelled breakfast into my mouth as fast as possible.
- The keeper then seemed to claw it out with fabulous reflexes only for TV replays to show the ball had most probably crossed the line before Forster had shovelled it away.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。