trowel

n. （园艺用的）泥铲；（砌砖用的）[建] 泥刀；（抹灰用的）抹子

vt. 用抹子涂抹；用小泥铲挖

中文词源

trowel 小铲子

来自古法语 truele,小铲子，来自拉丁语 truella,小勺子，来自 trua,勺子，-ella,小词后缀。可能来自 PIE*deru,树，木材，词源同 tree,tray,trough.

trowel (n.): mid-14c., "tool for spreading plaster or mortar," from Old French truele "trowel" (13c.), from Late Latin truella "small ladle, dipper" (mid-12c.), diminutive of Latin trua "a stirring spoon, ladle, skimmer." The gardening tool was so called since 1796.

1. 四川方言念法：铲(chuan) => chuan => truan => trua "a stirring spoon, ladle, skimmer" => truella (diminutive) => trowel.

2. He told her that she was his favourite author and that she deserved the Nobel Prize for literature. He really laid it on with a trowel.: 他对她说,她是自己最喜欢的作家,还说她应该获得诺贝尔文学奖. 他实际上是在恭维她.

4. Some of the grid sections will accumulate immediately in the trowel areas.: 有些板栅碎块可能立即堆积在刮刀的地方.