boil down to

英 [bɔɪl daʊn tu]

美 [bɔɪl daʊn tu]

重点是; 将…归结为

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB-ERG 重点是；将…归结为
  If you say that a situation or problemboils down toa particular thing or canbe boiled down toa particular thing, you mean that this is the most important or the most basic aspect of it.
  1. What they want boils down to just one thing. It is land...
     他们说穿了就是想要一样东西，那就是土地。
  2. For Malcolm work could always be boiled down to one idea: being good in business.
     对于马尔科姆来说，工作归根结底就是要取得好的业绩。

双语例句

• You can use several different techniques, but all boil down to "defer work as long as possible."
  您可以使用几种不同的技术，但是所有技术都归结于“尽可能地延迟工作。”
• We build prototypes for several reasons, all of which largely boil down to cost.
  我们因为一些原因构建产品原型，这些原因绝大多数出于成本的考虑。
• Hundreds of online articles and published books claim to know the secret of success in business, but for the most part, they boil down to the same major points.
  无数在线文章和图书宣称掌握了商业成功的秘诀，但事实上其中大多数都可以归结为几个相同的要点。
• These essentially boil down to performance, cost, and complexity.
  这些关键原因可归结为性能、成本及复杂性等方面。
• These facts boil down to very little significance.
  这些事实没有多大意义。
• Most of the crimes may boil down to a question of money.
  大多数犯罪归结起来可以说都是金钱问题。
• He wrote a lot in his letter, which can boil down to it that he felt very sorry for his absence.
  他在信里写了很多，归结为一句话，他为他没有能来表示歉意。
• What it all seemed to boil down to was money.
  这一切归结起来似乎就是一个“钱”字。
• On Marx's Proposition of "All Productive Forces Boil Down to Natural Forces"
  马克思论一切生产力都归结为自然力命题分析
• Its elements are many and do not boil down to "utility" or some cash-value equivalent.
  它由许多部分组成，人们不能只归结它为一定的功效又或者某种等同于金钱价值的存在。