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

• 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。
• This would have taken too long with the pickaxe alone, and it is known that Harding was an ingenious man.
  如果单靠鹤嘴锄，那不知道要费多少时间才能完成。
• 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 advanced towards the angle, and summoning all his resolution, attacked the ground with the pickaxe.
  他向那个角落走去好象突然下了一个很大的决心似的，用鹤嘴锄猛击地面。
• Attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example.
  例如，用冰镐或者坚硬的地面攻击。
• He rested on his pickaxe for a while.
  他在尖嘴镐上靠了一会儿。
• I can provide you with a pickaxe.
  我可以提供你镐。
• 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 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。
• He took up a pickaxe into the job.
  他抄起一把锄头就干活。