wire cutters
常見例句
- Howard: They gave him an assistant. If I want a new pen, I have to go to the bank with wire cutters.
還給他配個(gè)助理。我想要支新筆,還得拿著剪線鉗去銀行。 - So, when illegal traders catch them and sell them on, they usually remove the hapless creatures' teeth - with wire cutters.
所以,當(dāng)非法商人捕捉到它們并販賣售時(shí),他們通常會(huì)用鋼絲鉗除掉這些不幸動(dòng)物的牙齒。 - Once firemen arrived, they had to use wire cutters to get through the perimeter gates, and had trouble opening locked cell doors.
消防員趕到后,他們不得不用剪線鉗來(lái)打開周圍的門,而在打開鎖死的牢房門時(shí)同樣遇到了困難。 - But in less extreme cases, relieving workers of some of their tasks (wire-cutting for example), allows the domestic industry to expand—and a bigger industry might find room for the displaced wire-cutters, at the same wage, albeit on different tasks.
ECONOMIST: Does economics need a new theory of offshoring? - Commando though he is, without the Supreme Court to wield the cutters, he may be caught on the wire.
ECONOMIST: Another problem for Pervez Musharraf 返回 wire cutters