pick-and-shovel / ˈpɪk ənˈʃʌv əl /

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pick-and-shovel 的定义

adj. 形容词 adjective
  1. marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.

更多pick-and-shovel例句

  1. As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.
  2. As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.
  3. In such beer polls, I suspect a lot of voters would pick Huckabee.
  4. Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.
  5. Later that night, that same black-and-red banner would be seen again—in the column of marchers chanting for dead cops.
  6. She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.
  7. No law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.
  8. Mr. Spurrell came down to see a horse, and we shall be very glad to have the benefit of his opinion by-and-by.
  9. They were eaten too quickly, in long gulps of four-and-twenty hours at a time.
  10. We are going to send our butler to the sale to-morrow, to pick up some of that sixty-four.