The word "tool" refers to an instrument or equipment used for a specific task. It can also mean a method or a person used by others, or an idiom meaning to stop working in protest.
The word "tool" refers to an instrument or equipment used for a specific task. It can also mean a method or a person used by others, or an idiom meaning to stop working in protest.
;工具;器具;用具 A tool is any instrument or simple piece of equipment that you hold in your hands and use to do a particular kind of work. For example, spades, hammers, and knives are all tools.
I find the best tool for the purpose is a pair of shears.
我发现做这件事最得力的工具是一把大剪刀。
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]手段;方法 You can refer to anything that you use for a particular purpose as a particular type of tool .
[usu with supp]
Writing is a good tool for discharging overwhelming feelings…
写作是宣泄强烈感情的好方法。
The video has become an invaluable teaching tool...
录像已经成为非常有用的教学手段。
The threat of bankruptcy is a legitimate tool to extract money from them.
破产威胁是从他们那里索得钱款的合法手段。
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]受人利用的人;工具;傀儡 If you describe someone as a tool of a particular person, group, or system, you mean that they are controlled and used by that person, group, or system, especially to do unpleasant or dishonest things.
[usu N of n]
[disapproval]
He became the tool of the security services.
他成了安全部门的工具。
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[PHRASE 短语](因罢工或抗议而突然)停工,放下工具 If you say that workers down tools, you mean that they stop working suddenly in order to strike or to make a protest of some kind.
[V inflects]
[BRIT 英]
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[PHRASE 短语](技能、工具和设备等)从事某行当的工具The tools of your trade or the tools of the trade are the skills, instruments, and other equipment that you need in order to do your job properly.
[PHR after v]
They're here to learn the tools of their trade from their American colleagues...
他们来这里向美国同事学习行业技术和技能。
Black-leather jackets and tattoos are the standard tools of the trade for heavy-metal musicians.
黑皮夹克与纹身是重金属乐手的标准行头。
Oxford
tool★/tuːl; NAmEtuːl/
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tooltoolstooledtoolingnoun★ _tools_diy_comp.jpg _hammer.jpg 1★an instrument such as a hammer, screwdriver,saw,etc. that you hold in your hand and use for making things, repairing things, etc. 工具◆garden tools园艺工具◆a cutting tool切削工具◆power tools (= using electricity)电动工具◆Always select the right tool for the job.一定要选对干活的工具。2★a thing that helps you to do your job or to achieve sth (有助于做工或完成某事的)用具,器具,手段,方法◆research tools like questionnaires问卷之类的研究方法◆The computer is now an invaluable tool for the family doctor.计算机现在是家庭医生非常有用的工具。◆Some of them carried the guns which were the tools of their trade(= the things they needed to do their job).他们有些人携带着喷枪,那是干他们那一行的器具。3a person who is used or controlled by another person or group 受人利用的人;工具◆The prime minister was an unwitting tool of the president.首相不知不觉被总统利用了。4( taboo,slang) a penis鸡巴;阴茎IDIOMsee
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v.verb[intransitive ]+ adv./prep.( NAmE) ( informal) to drive around in a vehicle 驱车兜风;驾车到处跑PHRASAL VERBˌtool ˈup | ˌtool sb/sth↔ˈup( technical 术语) to get or provide sb/sth with the equipment, etc. that is necessary to do or produce sth 获得(或提供)必要的设备;给…配置装备◆The factory is not tooled up to produce this type of engine.这家工厂还没有装置生产这类发动机的设备。tool/tuːl; NAmEtuːl/
LDC
tool1 noun
tool2 verb
tooltool1 /tuːl/ ●●●S2W2 noun [countable]
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1tool (1)something that you hold in your hand and use to do a particular job: I don’t have the right tools to start fiddling around with the engine. a shop selling garden tools2a piece of equipment or a skill that is useful for doing your job: Television is an important tool for the modern teacher. These books are the tools of my trade (=the things I need to do my job).3someone who is used unfairly by another person and who has to do things they do not really want to do – used to show disapprovaltool of The king was merely a tool of the military government.4informal not polite a man’s penis (=sex organ) → down tools
American English informal to drive along a street, especially for fun: He spent the afternoon tooling around town.tool up phrasal verbto prepare a factory for producing goods by providing the necessary tools and machinerytool something ↔ up The factory was tooled up to produce light weapons.
WDF
tool
[tu:l]tooled, tooling, tools
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tools[12438]
工具(93%),手段(3%),使用工具(2%),用具(1%),用工具加工(1%)
n.工具,用具;器械,机床;手段
vt.用工具给……加工
vi.使用工具;用机床装备工厂
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