tyska-engelska översättning av spaten

spade
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You should throw away the spade. Werfen Sie den Spaten einfach weg.When we built roads in the 1930s it was individuals with spades that were involved. Als man in den 30er Jahren Straßen baute, war es noch möglich, jeweils einen Menschen mit einem Spaten einzusetzen. We saw them shouldering pickaxes and spades and marching joyfully off to work. Sie schulterten Picken und Spaten und marschierten fröhlich zur Arbeit.
dig up

shovel
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The workers were shovelling gravel and tarmac into the pothole in the road.After the blizzard, we shoveled the driveway for the next two days.I dont mind shoveling, but using a pickaxe hurts my back terribly.
turn upIs this your pencil that turned up in my drawer?I dont like people turning up without an appointmentI spent hours in the archives, but couldnt turn up anything on the alleged criminal.