scissors / shears / clippers / CL:把[ba3] / to cut with scissors / to trim / to wipe out or exterminate
剪
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刀
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前
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Joan of Arc (ji) wants to cut some ingredients for her cocktail in the anthill (an3), and she wants to use some very complicated electrical scissors (剪) for the task. The scissors have to be used through a complicated front panel (前) and after having studied the front panel for 15 minutes Joan of Arc is so enraged that she cuts her ingredients as well as the front panel with a large cleaver (刀).