wire cutters

基本解释

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，儅非法商人捕捉到它們竝販賣售時，他們通常會用鋼絲鉗除掉這些不幸動物的牙齒。
Once firemen arrived, they had to use wire cutters to get through the perimeter gates, and had trouble opening locked cell doors.
消防員趕到後，他們不得不用剪線鉗來打開周圍的門，而在打開鎖死的牢房門時同樣遇到了睏難。

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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