pickaxe

英 [ˈpɪkæks]

美 [ˈpɪkæks]

n.  镐; 尖嘴镐; 鹤嘴锄

BNC.35856 / COCA.32809

牛津词典

noun

• 镐；尖嘴镐；鹤嘴锄
  a large heavy tool that has a curved metal bar with sharp ends fixed at the centre to a wooden handle. It is used for breaking rocks or hard ground.

柯林斯词典

in AM, use 美国英语用 pickax


• 鹤嘴锄；丁字镐
  Apickaxeis a large tool consisting of a curved, pointed piece of metal with a long handle joined to the middle. Pickaxes are used for breaking up rocks or the ground.

英英释义

noun

• a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends
  1. they used picks and sledges to break the rocks
  Synonym:pickpickax

双语例句

• The clumsiness of power spoils the key, and uses the pickaxe.
  权力拙劣地溺爱着钥匙，竟利用了鹤嘴锄。
• He pecked at the hard ground with a pickaxe.
  他用鹤嘴锄掘坚硬的土地。
• The construction site has a lack of labor, so he took a pickaxe and went there to help.
  工地上缺人手，他拿了个镢头就帮忙去了。
• He had nothing more to do now, but with the iron tooth of the pickaxe to draw the stones towards him one by one.
  现在他只要用鹤嘴锄的铁齿把石头一块一块的勾到身边来就得了。
• The first time I saw a mattock of the Uygur nationality, I thought it quite similar to a pickaxe of the Han nationality.
  第一次亲眼见到坎土曼，我觉得这种农具和汉族的镐差不太多。
• Dants struck with the sharp end of his pickaxe, which entered someway between the interstices I was shocked to learn my co-worker was involved in a shakedown.
  得知我的合作人卷入了一起敲诈事件时，我惊呆了。
• He approached the hole he had dug. and now, with the aid of the torch, saw that his pickaxe had in reality struck against iron and wood.
  他举着火把走近他刚才挖成的洞的前面，看到鹤嘴锄的确掘到了铁皮和木头。
• He stole the pickaxe from the production team and was therefore criticized by the team leader.
  他偷了生产队的铁镐，遭到了队长的批评。
• He rested on his pickaxe for a while.
  他在尖嘴镐上靠了一会儿。
• He had a pickaxe somewhere in the heather, in a hiding-place known to himself alone.
  他有一把十字镐藏在灌木丛中一个只有他知道的隐蔽处。