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A long thin piece of metal with a sharp point — a spike. Hold that single picture: something pointed that juts out, pierces, or shoots up sharply. Almost every other meaning is either a real spike-shaped object, or the verb of doing what a spike does (pierce, drive in, shoot up).
可以想成一根又長又細、頂端很尖的金屬——一根尖刺。抓住這個畫面：尖尖的東西突出來、能刺穿、或猛地往上竄。spike …更多收起
可以想成一根又長又細、頂端很尖的金屬——一根尖刺。抓住這個畫面：尖尖的東西突出來、能刺穿、或猛地往上竄。spike 幾乎所有意思，不是真的「尖刺形狀的東西」，就是「做尖刺會做的事」（刺進去、扎進去、猛然竄高）。原始詞典資料33 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。
Spikename詞源 1
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A male nickname.
- This book contains mostly humorous animal poems by poets such as Spike Milligan, Theodore Roethke, and Rudyard Kipling.
- He was meant to be called Benjamin, but he arrived with a little tuft of hair on top of his head, like a spike, and they called him Spike for three days, and then recalled a romantic, childless afternoon, years earlier, spent watching a matinee revival of She's Gotta Have It.
Spikename詞源 2
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A surname transferred from the nickname.
spikenoun/spaɪk/
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A sort of very large nail.
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A piece of pointed metal etc. set with points upward or outward.
- The trap was lined with spikes.
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Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
- He vvears on his head the Corona Radiata, vvhich at that time vvas another type of his Divinity. The ſpikes that ſhoot out from the crovvn vvere to repreſent the rays of the Sun.
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An ear of corn or grain.
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biologybotanynatural-sciencesA kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
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informalA running shoe with spikes in the sole to provide grip.
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A sharp peak in a graph.
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A surge in power or in the price of a commodity, etc.; any sudden and brief change that would be represented by a sharp peak on a graph.
- If the border were shut down, consumers would most likely see an immediate spike in food prices, and supplies of fresh food could dwindle from grocery store shelves in a matter of days.
- As well as the boom in off-peak leisure numbers, "there has been a big spike in passenger assistance - that's really taken off as well", he continues. "We're probably victims of our own success because we promote this more than we ever used to. We promote how accessible the railways are. I think that this area has more than doubled from pre-COVID levels.
另外 11 個記錄的用法
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The rod-like protrusion from a woman's high-heeled shoe that elevates the heel.
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A long nail for storing papers by skewering them; (by extension) the metaphorical place where rejected newspaper articles are sent.
- It was all true, it appeared. He sat down and wrote it, the editor read it and said: ' We don't use stories like this in this newspaper.' So the story ended up on the spike, reinforcing the principle that wife-swapping, unlike justice, must not be seen to be done.
- Later I was entrusted with writing the letters to the editor, because nobody else ever wrote to our paper. The editor, Eric Lewis, had a slash and burn style of editing that left its mark on me forever. Most of my stories ended up on the spike.
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ball-gamesgameshobbiesAn attack from, usually, above the height of the net performed with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
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biologynatural-scienceszoologyAn adolescent male deer.
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historicalslangThe casual ward of a workhouse.
- Dere's tay spikes, and cocoa spikes, and skilly spikes.
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Spike lavender.
- oil of spike
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artscraftsentertainmentSynonym of endpin.
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entertainmentlifestyletheaterA mark indicating where a prop or other item should be placed on stage.
- Sometimes actors set props on the spikes, or sometimes a deckhand will do it, depending on the action of the play.
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computingengineeringmathematicsA small project that uses the simplest possible program to explore potential solutions.
- An architectural spike is used to prove that a specific technical approach works. Teams will often do an architectural spike when they have a few different options for designing a specific technical solution, or if they don't know if a certain approach will work.
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An excessively high church Anglican.
- Here we see an Anglo-Catholic spike cocking a snook at authority, getting away with it, and probably exercising an important liturgical and sacramental ministry – at least by his own lights – to some of the troops on the Western Front.
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biologymicrobiologynatural-sciencesa structure projecting from the surface of an enveloped virus, which binds to host cells.
spikeverb/spaɪk/
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To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails.
- to spike down planks
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To set or furnish with spikes.
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To embed nails into (a tree) so that any attempt to cut it down will damage equipment or injure people.
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To fix on a spike.
- He spiked the story on the “dead” hook and answered his interphone.
- Better known as Vlad Tepes (Vlad the Impaler), he spiked his victims on stakes arranged in geometric patterns and accorded each a high or low spear, according to his or her rank.
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journalismmediaTo discard; to decide not to publish or make public.
- Nicolaas, or Nick, as the family called him, wanted to turn professional but an ear injury, sustained during the war, spiked his plans.
- Instead, the "Beaver" declared he would spike the story about Wallis Simpson and make sure his fellow media moguls sat on it too.
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To increase sharply.
- Traffic accidents spiked in December when there was ice on the roads.
- 2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/03/macaques-monkeys-indonesia-endangered-pet-trade/ But the bigger threat is that people in Sulawesi have been eating macaque meat for centuries. Today it goes for about two dollars a pound (an adult macaque weighs 18 to 23 pounds), and demand spikes at holidays.
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To add alcohol or a drug into a drink, especially if covertly.
- She spiked my lemonade with vodka!
- I asked him what was happening, and if it was all me, and he laughed and held me very close and told me that the Kool-Aid had been ‘spiked’ and that I was just beginning my first LSD experience…
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To add a small amount of one substance to another.
- The water sample to be tested has been spiked with arsenic, antimony, mercury, and lead in quantities commonly found in industrial effluents.
另外 4 個記錄的用法
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ball-gamesgameshobbiesTo attack from, usually, above the height of the net with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
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governmentmilitarypoliticsTo render (a gun) unusable by driving a metal spike into its touch hole.
- He jumped down, wrenched the hammer from the armourer's hand, and seizing a nail from the bag, in a few moments he had spiked the gun.
- Small skirmishes also took place, and the Afghans managed to seize a pair of mule-guns and force the British to spike and abandon two other precious guns.
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slangAmerican-footballball-gamesfootballTo slam the football to the ground, usually in celebration of scoring a touchdown, or to stop expiring time on the game clock after snapping the ball as to save time for the losing team to attempt to score the tying or winning points.
- to spike the football
- “No one is spiking the football yet,” Mr. Kahl said.
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slangTo inject a drug with a syringe.
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。