英语释义

• without question and beyond doubt;

  "it was decidedly too expensive"

  "she told him off in spades"

  "by all odds they should win"

片语

on the level诚实的；可靠的；坦率地；老实说

in the extreme非常；极度

英汉例句

• you might be pleasantly surprised to learn about a free or low-cost service that works automatically and will pay you back in spades should you need to replace your cellphone.

  你可能会欣喜地了解到该服务收费的低廉甚至完全免费，这还省去了更换新手机时的麻烦。

• the pair became interested in energy-generating skyscrapers on moving to the united arab emirates, where there are superstructures in spades but few that are any greener than their brochures.

  这对夫妇来到阿联酋以后开始对供能的摩天大厦产生兴趣，因为那里建筑的上层结构十分出色，但很少能像建筑宣传册上表现得那样环保。

• the nominal investment of time it takes to learn pays off in spades for the rest of your life. after all, how would your life be different if you were able to read an extra book each week?

  花在学习上的少量时间投资对你的余生来说肯定是有回报的，毕竟，如果你能每个星期多读一本书的话，你的生活会有多大的不同啊。

• all these arguments applied in spades to 19th-century rail.

  所有的这些论证与19世纪的铁路系统非常吻合。

• england would pay for this luck in spades with the hand of god incident – an unfair tariff, especially as fenwick did absolutely nothing when maradona went on to score his second goal.

  英格兰为这种侥幸不得不承受后来的上帝之手。这种不公，在马拉多拉再次射中，而费尼克显然什么也没做的情况下，尤其明显。

• i love the black holes cover because it breaks that rule – in spades – and it sold well.

  我喜爱这张黑洞封面，因为它非常肯定地打破了这一原则，并且销售良好。

• but one thing it does offer in spades is security.

  但能肯定的就是我的安全不成问题。