及物动词

名词

1. 工具;器具;用具
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.

2. 手段;方法
You can refer to anything that you use for a particular purpose as a particular type of tool .

3. 受人利用的人;工具;傀儡
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.

4. (因罢工或抗议而突然)停工，放下工具
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.

5. (技能、工具和设备等)从事某行当的工具
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.

1. the means whereby some act is accomplished

e.g. my greed was the instrument of my destruction
science has given us new tools to fight disease

Synonym: instrument

2. an implement used in the practice of a vocation

3. obscene terms for penis

Synonym: cockprickdickshaftpeckerpeterputz

4. a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else

Synonym: creaturepuppet