spade是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 铁锹， 铲子，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When this strain of music sounded, all the things that Ghost had shown him, came upon his mind; he softened more and more; and thought that if he could have listened to it often, years ago, he might have cultivated the kindnesses of life for his own happiness with his own 74 Sons and Lovershands, without resorting to the sexton's spade that buried Jacob Marley.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The spade was not invariably called a bloody shovel.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You see that spade in the centre?'
-- So it happens that the sexton's spade gets worn and battered.
-- The old man stopped in his work, and cleansing his spade with a piece of slate he had by him for the purpose and scraping off, in the process, the essence of Heaven knows how many Becky Morgans set himself to consider the subject.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he returned he carried a spade and a lantern, the light of which he directed for a few moments upon the marble, whilst he read the inscription.
-- Emotional convulsions seemed to have become the commonplaces of her history, and she bade him good morning, and asked him to fill in the hole with the spade which was standing by.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A more elastic footstep entered next; and now I opened my mouth for a 'good morning,' but closed it again, the salutation unachieved; for Hareton Earnshaw was performing his orison SOTTO VOCE, in a series of curses directed against every object he touched, while he rummaged a corner for a spade or shovel to dig through the drifts.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I call a spade a spade; and I call the mother of Josiah Bounderby of Coketown, without any fear or any favour, what I should call her if she had been the mother of Dick Jones of Wapping.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A short-handled sharp spade being sent up to him, he diligently searches for the proper place to begin breaking into the Tun.
-- So that tormented to madness, he was now churning through the water, violently flailing with his flexible tail, and tossing the keen spade about him, wounding and murdering his own comrades.
-- You would almost have thought he was digging a cellar there in the sea; and when at length his spade struck against the gaunt ribs, it was like turning up old Roman tiles and pottery buried in fat English loam.
-- This spade is sharp as hone can make it; the spademan's feet are shoeless; the thing he stands on will sometimes irresistibly slide away from him, like a sledge.
-- The Titans, they say, hummed snatches when chipping out the craters for volcanoes; and the grave-digger in the play sings, spade in hand.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- First, I had no plough to turn up the earth - no spade or shovel to dig it.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He put a hand as big as a spade into the net and pulled out a handful of mullets.
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