nail down
英 [neɪl daʊn]
美 [neɪl daʊn]
弄清; 确定; 确定(协议)
柯林斯词典
- PHRASAL VERB 弄清;确定
If younail downsomething unknown or uncertain, you find out exactly what it is.- It would be useful if you could nail down the source of this tension.
如果你能弄清这种紧张的根源,将会大有益处。
- It would be useful if you could nail down the source of this tension.
- PHRASAL VERB 确定(协议)
If younail downan agreement, you manage to reach a firm agreement with a definite result.- The Secretary of State and his Russian counterpart met to try to nail down the elusive accord.
美国国务卿和俄罗斯外交部长进行了会晤,试图敲定这项难以达成的协议。
- The Secretary of State and his Russian counterpart met to try to nail down the elusive accord.
- PHRASAL VERB 钉牢;钉住
If younailsomethingdown, you fix it firmly onto something.- Lay strips of 4mm ply over the mesh and nail these down with panel pins.
把4毫米厚的胶合板条铺在网子上,然后用镶板钉钉牢。
- Lay strips of 4mm ply over the mesh and nail these down with panel pins.
英英释义
verb
- make final
- let's finalize the proposal
- define clearly
- I cannot narrow down the rules for this game
- succeed in obtaining a position
- He nailed down a spot at Harvard
双语例句
- Similarly, by partnering with PetroChina, shell can nail down a customer nation determined to wean itself off coal.
同样,通过与中石油携手收购,壳牌就可敲定一个决心摆脱对煤炭依赖的客户国。 - Pastels came into style when a 1918 retail trade publication attempted to nail down the rules: pink for boys and blue for girls.
1918年,一份零售的行业刊物2试图确定这样的惯例:粉红色是男孩子的颜色,而蓝色是女孩子的颜色。也就在那时,浅色开始流行起来。 - Why is it considered necessary to nail down the lid of a coffin?
为什么非要用钉子把棺材的盖子钉住? - The goal is to work out all the unknowns and nail down all the details before the first line of code is written.
目的就是为了在第一行代码写下前,将所有不明确的东西明确并细化下来。 - If we could just nail down a few more contracts, we'd be all right.
我们如果能再确定几个契约就好了。 - He stayed another week, trying to nail down train tickets beyond Kuibyshev.
他又呆了一个星期,设法弄到比古比雪夫更远的火车票。 - Signing the contract will nail down their agreement.
签署合同将使他们的协议肯定下来。 - The investment side of ROI can be easier to nail down than the return, as it boils down to what it costs to build and maintain the software product.
相对于回报来说,ROI的投资这一边更容易被固定下来,这是由于它归结为建立和维护软件产品的费用。 - They couldn't nail down numbers for private-equity firms, hedge funds and other money-management outfits but concluded that their ranks and compensation had grown dramatically.
他们虽然无法弄清私人股本公司、对冲基金和其他资产管理机构的相关数字,但断定其阵容和报酬已大幅增长。 - What we hope to achieve in today's meeting is to nail down the programming content.
希望在今天的会上我们能把节目内容确定下来。