early 14c., "tool for grasping or nipping," from Old French pinceure "pincers, tongs," from pincier "to pinch" (see pinch). Applied to animal parts from 1650s. Related: Pincer.
雙語例句
1. His surgical instruments were a knife and a pair of pincers.
他的外科手術器械是一把刀和一把鉗子。
來自柯林斯例句
2. a pair of pincers
一把鉗子
來自《權威詞典》
3. He worked with a pair of pincers.
他用一把鉗子工作.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. In the meantime the outer pincers had met and closed.
同時,外圈鉗形圍攻的部隊已經會師合圍.
來自辭典例句
5. It was within the claws of the Warsaw pincers that the Polish Army fought and died.