2.TBCa part of a large vehicle or machine used for moving or digging earth 〔推土机、挖土机前面的〕铲,铲形部分
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shovel• In tears, I fetched my father who went to work with a shovel and retrieved most of the contents.• Did he think that would work if she got him gloves and a rake and shovel?• Its workers did this the hard way, with sweat and shovels.• When dusk had come, Wade put his shovelaside and moved down the slope to the dock.• A 47-year-old man died after an accident involving a 17-tonloadingshovel at the Redland Aggregatessite at Barham.• He went into the nearest town and bought a propershovel.• The shovel itself had metalteeth so it could bite into a pile of dirt.
1DTto lift and move earth, stones etc with a shovel 〔用铲子〕铲起
The workmen shovelled gravel onto the road.
工人们把碎石铲到路面上。
They were out in freezing conditions shovelling snow off the pitch.
他们在外面冒着严寒铲掉球场上的雪。
shovel the driveway/sidewalk etcAmerican EnglishAmE (=shovel snow from a road or path) 铲去私人车道/人行道等上的积雪
Everyone was out shoveling their sidewalks.
大家都在外面铲人行道上的积雪。
2shovel something into/onto somethingPUTto put something, usually food, somewhere quickly 迅速将某物〔一般指食物〕放进…里/放在…上
We shovelled food into our mouths as fast as we could.
我们尽快把食物塞进嘴里。
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shovel• Parents are cleaning, shoveling, and even teaching to aid schools.• They shoveled dirt back into the grave.• And no wonder new purchases of bondfunds are a pittancecompared with what people shovel into stock funds.• You might as well take money and shovel it down the drain.• All business has to do is back a truck up to the money bin and shovel out the appropriate amount.• Men sit silently at the bar, pulling on Buds, shovelingquarters into the videopoker machines set in the countertops.• Kathy shovelingrain off a sidewalk.• Most people shovel without claiming spaces.