tool
n. 器具,工具; (有助于做工或完成某事的)用具; 受人利用的人; 压印机
vt. 用工具给…加工; 压印; 驾车到处跑
vi. 使用工具; 开车,乘车
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。
You can refer to anything that you use for a particular purpose as a particular type of tool .
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。
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.
He became the tool of the security services.
他成了安全部门的工具。
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.
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.
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。
1. an implement used in the practice of a vocation
2. the means whereby some act is accomplished;
3. a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else
4. obscene terms for penis
1. drive;
2. ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it;
3. furnish with tools
4. work with a tool
apparatus, instrument, device, equipment, tool, implement, installation, appliance, facilities
这些名词均有"仪器,设备,器械,器具"之意。
tool up
提供装备:为企业或工厂提供适合于某项具体工作的工具和装备
At last the tracking laws derived above are indirectly validated using STK ( Satellite Tool Kit ).
最后利用STK ( SatelliteToolKit ) 对该跟踪规律进行了间接验证.
However, tool wear is high in USM, due to the abrasive cutting action.
但是, 由于USM是磨削加工, 因而刀具损耗大.
A screwdriver is the only tool you need.
你需要的工具只是改锥.
He emptied his tool bag.
他腾出自己的工具袋.
This is a very handy tool for opening cans.
这是一种很简便的开罐头工具.