tools of trade: meaning & examples
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Meanings:
- The instruments, equipment, or physical implements commonly used to perform the tasks of a particular profession or craft.
- The specialized methods, techniques, or resources characteristic of a particular occupation or field of activity.
Examples
BetaA carpenter’s tools of trade include saws, hammers, and measuring tapes essential for building furniture.
Las herramientas de un carpintero incluyen sierras, martillos y cintas métricas esenciales para construir muebles.
Photographers rely on cameras and lighting equipment as their primary tools of trade.
Los fotógrafos dependen de cámaras y equipos de iluminación como sus principales herramientas de trabajo.
The chef’s tools of trade are knives, pots, and pans, which he maintains meticulously.
Las herramientas del chef son cuchillos, ollas y sartenes, que mantiene meticulosamente.
For a painter, brushes and canvases are the fundamental tools of trade used daily in the studio.
Para un pintor, los pinceles y lienzos son las herramientas fundamentales que usa diariamente en el estudio.
Examples:
- EN: They went by trial and error. Trying to break the mysterious disease with their tools of trade. Specific operations, transfusions.ES: Y empezaron las tentativas, tratando de curar la misteriosa enfermedad con las herramientas de su oficio, intervenciones muy concretas, trasfusiones, usando tu cuerpo como una página en blanco, sobre la cual se podía destripar y resolver un problema.
- EN: He spent over six years researching the band's equipment to produce what is the most detailed account yet of their tools of trade - on stage and in the studio.TE: వేదికపై మరియు స్టూడియోలో వారి వాణిజ్య సాధనాల యొక్క వివరణాత్మక ఖాతాను ఇంకా ఉత్పత్తి చేయడానికి బ్యాండ్ యొక్క పరికరాలు పరిశోధన కోసం ఆరు సంవత్సరాలు గడిపాడు.
- EN: We also don't have the right tools of trade.TE: అలాగే వ్యాపారానికి అవసరమైన లక్షణాలు మాలో లేవు.
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