Word · Frequency #21519
trowel
泥铲；泥刀
a small hand tool with a handle and a flat metal blade, used for scooping or spreading plaster or similar materials
- 1.
A mason’s tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.
泥瓦匠用于涂抹灰浆、修整砖块的工具。
- 2.
a small hand tool with a handle and flat metal blade; used for scooping or spreading plaster or similar materials
一种带手柄和扁平金属刀片的小型手工工具,用于舀取或涂抹灰泥或类似材料
- 3.
A gardener’s tool, shaped like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring soil etc.
园艺工具,形似铲子,用于移栽植物、翻土等。
- 4.
A tool used for smoothing a mold.
用于使模具平滑的工具。
泥瓦匠用于涂抹灰浆、修整砖块的工具。；一种带手柄和扁平金属刀片的小型手工工具,用于舀取或涂抹灰泥或类似材料；园艺工具,形似铲子,用于移栽植物、翻土等。；用于使模具平滑的工具。；泥铲
In use
He used a trowel to spread the cement smoothly over the bricks.
The gardener dug up the small plant with a trowel.
She bought a new trowel for her pottery class.
use a trowel to do sth
【名词】trowel 指泥铲、泥刀，常用于涂抹或舀取灰泥等材料。
Use a trowel to spread the plaster evenly.
用泥铲均匀地涂抹灰泥。
trowel sth
【动词】trowel 表示用泥铲涂抹，是及物动词，后接被涂抹的材料。
He trowelled the plaster.
他用泥铲涂抹灰泥。
Common mistakes
Please hand me a towel to spread the mortar.Please hand me a trowel to spread the mortar.
Connections
Collocations
- garden trowel
- 园艺小铲
- She used a garden trowel to plant the tulip bulbs.她用园艺小铲种郁金香球茎。
- plasterer's trowel
- 抹灰泥刀
- He smoothed the wall with a plasterer's trowel.他用抹灰泥刀把墙面抹平。
- notched trowel
- 带槽口的泥刀
- Use a notched trowel to spread the adhesive evenly.用带槽口的泥刀均匀地涂抹粘合剂。
- trowel on
- 用泥刀抹上
- Trowel on the plaster before it dries.在灰泥变干之前用泥刀把它抹上。
- bricklayer's trowel
- 瓦工泥刀
- A bricklayer's trowel has a pointed blade.瓦工泥刀有一个尖头刀片。
Idioms & figurative uses
Learner notes
Memory Tip
记法：towel 加个 r 就是 trowel——毛巾擦汗，泥铲抹泥。
Context & Register
语域：neutral 常见场景：construction、masonry、plastering、gardening 该词作名词和动词时均使用中性语体，多用于建筑、抹灰和园艺等具体操作场景；日常口语中用得较少，属于行业常用说法。
Grammar Note
动词的现在分词、过去式和过去分词也可拼作 troweling / troweled。
Pronunciation & Spelling
Towel, vowel, bowel, and dowel share the -owel spelling with trowel and keep the /aʊ/ sound, but trowel’s ending is /wɛl/ while these usually end in /əl/, so they are not exact rhymes. Growl and scowl look similar (-owl) but are one syllable /aʊl/ and do not rhyme with trowel.
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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