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.
例文
1. He was laying on the flattery with a trowel .
彼はひたすらおべっかを使っている.
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 .