shovel是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 铁锨, 铲; vt. 铲起，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。
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In one corner stood a huge bag of wool, ready to be spun; in another, a quantity of linsey-woolsey just from the loom; ears of Indian corn, and strings of dried apples and peaches, hung in gay festoons along the walls, mingled with the gaud of red peppers; and a door left ajar gave him a peep into the best parlor, where the claw-footed chairs and dark mahogany tables shone like mirrors; andirons, with their accompanying shovel and tongs, glistened from their covert of asparagus tops; mock- oranges and conch - shells decorated the mantelpiece; strings of various-colored birds eggs were suspended above it; a great ostrich egg was hung from the centre of the room, and a corner cupboard, know-ingly left open, displayed immense treasures of old silver and well-mended china.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He halted, dropped his shovel and started toward her, calling to the negroes nearest him:"Gawdlmighty!It's Miss Scarlett!You, 'Lige!
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here, in their diving-dresses, pick axe and shovel in hand, my men extract the coal, which I do not even ask from the mines of the earth.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The colliers bring it above-ground with them, shovel it up.
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.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- asked Meg one snowy afternoon, as her sister came tramping through the hall, in rubber boots, old sack, and hood, with a broom in one hand and a shovel in the other.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But there was more than this: the order about the shovel was almost as plainly meant to sting and insult Steelkilt, as though Radney had spat in his face.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As for the pickaxe, I made use of the iron crows, which were proper enough, though heavy; but the next thing was a shovel or spade; this was so absolutely necessary, that, indeed, I could do noth-ing effectually without it; but what kind of one to make I knew not.
-- The excessive hardness of the wood, and my having no other way, made me a long while upon this ma-chine, for I worked it effectually by little and little into the form of a shovel or spade; the handle exactly shaped like ours in England, only that the board part having no iron shod upon it at bottom, it would not last me so long; how-ever, it served well enough for the uses which I had occasion to put it to; but never was a shovel, I believe, made after that fashion, or so long in making.
-- First, I had no plough to turn up the earth - no spade or shovel to dig it.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- and who told the widow she could put in her shovel about a thing that ain't none of her busi-ness?'
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