tool
n. 工具, 机床, 傀儡 vt. 用工具加工 vi. 使用工具
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教材释义与例句
工具，用具；器械，机床；手段
something that you hold in your hand and use to do a particular job
使用工具；用机床装备工厂
释义与例句
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1.
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.
A stapler is a tool for attaching papers to others.
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Any physical device meant to ease or do a task.
Any piece of equipment used in a profession, such as a craftsman's.
工具
the tools of the trade
Rakes, shovels, hoes, and spades are some of the tools of the gardener's trade.
I don't have the right tools to start fiddling around with the engine.
A timing light is a tool that only an automotive mechanic, professional or amateur, would have.
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Anything that aids someone to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.
Idleness is a tool of the devil.
A spreadsheet app and a bookkeeping app are some of the principal tools of a bookkeeper.
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A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.
计算机 工程 数学The software engineer had been developing lots of EDA tools.
a tool for recovering deleted files from a disk
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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.
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A particular skill pertaining to baseball (such as hitting, running, etc.).
体育 游戏a five-tool player
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A penis, notably with a sexual or erotic connotation.
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An obnoxious or uptight person.
贬义 俚语 粗俗 引申义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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A handgun.
加拿大 多元文化伦敦英语 美国 俚语
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To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.
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To equip with tools.
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To work very hard.
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To put down another person (possibly in a subtle, hidden way), and in that way to use him or her to meet a goal.
俚语 及物Dude, he's not your friend. He's just tooling you.
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To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds.
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To drive (a coach or other vehicle).
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To carry or convey in a coach or other vehicle.
英国 过时 俚语 及物1850s, Cuthbert M. Bede, The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green Among those who seemed disposed to join in this opinion was the Jehu of the Warwickshire coach, who expressed his conviction to our hero, that "he wos a young gent as had much himproved hisself since he tooled him up to the Warsity with his guvnor."
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To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive.
不及物 俚语March 8, 1890, Byron P. Stephenson, "My Trip to Brazil", in Illustrated American boys on their bicycles tooling along the well-kept roads
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词源
From Middle English tool, tol, from Old English tōl (“tool, implement, instrument”, literally “that with which one prepares something”), perhaps borrowed from Old Norse tól, but at any rate ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tōlą (“that which is used in preparation, tool”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂- (“to tie to, secure”), equivalent to taw (“to prepare”) + -le (agent suffix). Cognate with Scots tuil (“tool, implement, instrument, device”), Icelandic tól (“tool”), Faroese tól (“tool, instrument”). Related to Old English tāwian (“to make, prepare, or cultivate”); see taw, and tow ("fibres used for spinning").
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