Spoon

(noun.) a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food.

(noun.) formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face.

(noun.) as much as a spoon will hold; 'he added two spoons of sugar'.

(verb.) scoop up or take up with a spoon; 'spoon the sauce over the roast'.

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• Even the children were instructed, each to dip a wooden spoon into Mr. Micawber's pot, and pledge us in its contents. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• There's not a fork or a spoon in the collection, said Miss Pross, that I didn't cry over, last night after the box came, till I couldn't see it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Besides Mr. Bounderby's gold spoon which was generally received in Coketown, another prevalent fiction was very popular there. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Susan dropped the spoon, shook her fist at the vanished figure, and then proceeded with her work in a musing, absent way. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• From this sheet is cut a blank, which bears little resemblance to a spoon, being about half the length of the finished article and very much wider. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• And I also told you, if you remember, that I was up to the gold spoon look-out. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• This style of spoon was continued, with modifications, through the first third of the eighteenth century. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The spoons, forks, and other instruments, were all in the same proportion. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• This reference is the twenty-fifth chapter of the Book of Exodus, wherein the Lord commanded Moses to make golden spoons for the Tabernacle. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• When spoons are to be plated, they are hung in a bath of silver nitrate side by side with a thick slab of pure silver, as in Figure 209. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Of course we have something in the shape of tea-spoons, because we stir our tea. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• There seems no reason why, if in general use, silver forks should not now be as common as spoons. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• As for one dozen well-manufactured silver spoons and forks at per oz. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Sir, I'm very much obliged to you for the caution, and I'll leave particular directions with the servant to lock up the spoons,' replied Mr. Gunter. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• There being plenty of gravy to-day, Joe spooned into my plate, at this point, about half a pint. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• The ship lay very broad off, so we thought it better spooning before the sea, than trying or hulling. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.

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