He told the men to put down their guns and take up digging tools.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

What these people have to work with are the tools that have been passed down to them, The poverty of the people Frost writes about is important.

这些人需要用一代代传下来,的工具或者自己制造的工具，弗罗斯特所写的这些人的贫穷非常重要。

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If a large financial institution should ever fail, we will have the tools to wind it down without endangering the larger economy."

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

The rocks were tumbling down around us. We dropped our tools and ran."

VOA: standard.2010.04.02