1·The veto has been a traditional instrument of diplomacy for centuries.
数世纪以来，否决已经成为一种传统的外交手段。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·Society needed a more dependable instrument of time measurement and found it in the mechanical clock.
社会需要一种更可靠的时间测量仪器，它就是机械钟。
3·Over the next two years, they made their most groundbreaking work, turning the recording studio into a magical instrument of its own.
在接下来的两年里，他们做出了最具开创性的工作，即把录音室变成了一个拥有自身魔法的乐器设备。
4·Punishment can never be used as an instrument of revenge but only for what he calls the correction or what we would call the rehabilitation of the offender.
惩罚永远不能被用作复仇的工具，而只能用于他所说的纠正，或者我们所说的让罪犯改过自新。
5·In December 1653, by an Instrument of Government, he became Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England.
1653年12月，通过政府文书，他成为英格兰英联邦的主要保护者。
6·Cor anglais is a musical instrument of the woodwind group.
英国管乐器是木管乐器组的一种乐器。
7·The browser as an instrument of data portability?
浏览器作为数据携带工具？
8·Guilt towards God this tool becomes and instrument of torture.
对上帝的愧疚这一工具成为，折磨的工具。
9·Feathers did, of course, eventually become an instrument of flight.
当然，羽毛最终进化成为飞翔的工具。
10·Not that things are but what things are using the instrument of language?
不是指一般时候事情是怎样的，而是说，运用语言工具时事情是怎样的？