spadeworker

词形变化

spadeworkers 复数 spadeworkers

别名

spade-worker

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    One who does spadework, now especially in the figurative sense of preparatory work.

    1942, Lewis Mumford, article on Constance Rourke first published in Saturday Review, Volume 25, 15 August, 1942, cited in Dorothy Nyren Curley et al. (editors), Modern American Literature, New York: Frederick Ungar, 1960, p. 109, She was equally at home in music, literature, painting, drama, and the crafts; and she would run down an obscure picture, ferret out a local tale, or rummage through heaps of faded letters with the relentless patience that marks the useful spadeworker.

词源

From spadework + -er or spade + worker.

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