pickaxe
发音
英 [ˈpɪkæks]
美 [ˈpɪkˌæks]
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- n.
- 镐
单词词源
pickaxe 尖嘴镐，鹤嘴锄
来自中古英语picas,镐，锄，来自古法语picois,镐，锄，来自拉丁语picosa,镐，锄，词源同picus,啄木鸟，词源同pie,pike.拼写受pick和axe影响俗化。
双语例句
- 1. I can provide you with a pickaxe .
- 我能提供你一个镐.
- 2. Instead of a pickaxe , you can offer me some tea .
- 镐不用，你倒可以给我一些茶.
- 3. Armed with only one pickaxe and their bare hands , they tunneled their way through 66 feet of coal .
- 他们的手边只有一个镐头，他们在煤碳中挖出了66英尺的坑道。
- 4. A few old-timers remain , but most of the 15000 delegates at this year 's event were more adept at wielding a blackberry than a pickaxe , and were more likely to have come from mongolia , peru or south africa than balmertown , northern ontario . Yet the conversation was reassuringly familiar .
- 虽然还能看到几个以前的老矿工的身影，但这次会议的15000个代表中大部分人玩起无线通讯设备比使用镐子还熟练，而且他们中有很多人来自蒙古，秘鲁或南非，而不是安大略北部的巴尔莫镇。