wire cutters

基本解釋

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(xiàn)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(mài)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(xiàn)鉗來(lái)打開(kāi)周?chē)拈T(mén)，而在打開(kāi)鎖死的牢房門(mén)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.
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Commando though he is, without the Supreme Court to wield the cutters, he may be caught on the wire.
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