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.
还给他配个助理。我想要支新笔，还得拿着剪线钳去银行。
So, when illegal traders catch them and sell them on, they usually remove the hapless creatures' teeth - with wire cutters.
所以，当非法商人捕捉到它们并贩卖售时，他们通常会用钢丝钳除掉这些不幸动物的牙齿。
Once firemen arrived, they had to use wire cutters to get through the perimeter gates, and had trouble opening locked cell doors.
消防员赶到后，他们不得不用剪线钳来打开周围的门，而在打开锁死的牢房门时同样遇到了困难。

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