tool
/tul/ 名词 A1中文： 工具
- Any physical device meant to ease or do a task. · Several prehistoric tools, including a stone ax, were found during the dig.· A screwdriver is a tool that no household should be without.
- Any piece of equipment used in a profession, such as a craftsman's. · the tools of the trade· Rakes, shovels, hoes, and spades are some of the tools of the gardener's trade.
- Anything that aids someone to perform an operation; an instrument; a means. · A spreadsheet app and a bookkeeping app are some of the principal tools of a bookkeeper.
- A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations. · The software engineer had been developing lots of EDA tools.· a tool for recovering deleted files from a disk
- A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group, a pawn. · She was a tool of the pharmaceutical lobby.· He was a tool of a foreign influence operation.
- A particular skill pertaining to baseball (such as hitting, running, etc.). · a five-tool player
- A penis, notably with a sexual or erotic connotation.
- An obnoxious or uptight person. · He won't sell us tickets because it's 3:01, and they went off sale at 3. That guy's such a tool.
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It appears, sir, that this Edmond Dantès had procured tools, or made them, for they found a tunnel through which the prisoners held communication with one another.”
And when the tinsmiths came, bringing with them all their tools in baskets, she inquired, “Can you straighten out those dents in the Tin Woodman, and bend him back into shape again, and solder him together where he is broken?”
A VIPER, entering the workshop of a smith, sought from the tools the means of satisfying his hunger.
In the first place, I was four years making the tools I possess, and have been two years scraping and digging out earth, hard as granite itself; then what toil and fatigue has it not been to remove huge stones I should once have deemed impossible to loosen.
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