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英 [neɪl daʊn]

美 [neɪl daʊn]

弄清; 确定; 确定（协议）

法律

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 弄清;确定
  If younail downsomething unknown or uncertain, you find out exactly what it is.
  1. 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。
• PHRASAL VERB 确定(协议)
  If younail downan agreement, you manage to reach a firm agreement with a definite result.
  1. 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。
• PHRASAL VERB 钉牢;钉住
  If younailsomethingdown, you fix it firmly onto something.
  1. 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。

英英释义

verb

• make final
  1. let's finalize the proposal
  Synonym:finalizefinalisesettle
• define clearly
  1. I cannot narrow down the rules for this game
  Synonym:pin downpeg downnarrow downnarrowspecify
• succeed in obtaining a position
  1. He nailed down a spot at Harvard
  Synonym:nailpeg

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• "Law of contract" in the286~ ( th) substantively stipulates the construction project priority, but this stipulation doesn t nail down the quality of this right.
  《合同法》第286条实质上规定的是建设工程优先权的内容，但该条规定并未明确其权利的性质。
• When the country is on-call for your nuptials, it's less important to nail down what you really want.
  如果国家对你的婚礼能随时准备好，就不用太确定你真正需要什么。
• Starting with the frame list keeps the storyboard organized and helps you nail down the step-by-step outline before delving into the details of each frame or sketch.
  以框架列表开始可以使故事板有组织，而且还可以帮助你钻研每一框架或者示意图细节之前确定一步步的纲要。
• I'm thinking it may help us nail down the vic's ID.
  我在想这么做或许能帮我们找出死者身份。
• 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。
• 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。
• The public benefits of commodity packaging is that the design of packaging should propose reasonable social ethic and order, promulgate civilization, nail down the tendency of social morality, and have the idea of serving the public.
  摘要商品包装的公益性是指包装设计应倡导合理的社会伦理秩序，传播文明精神，明确社会道德价值趋向，具有为社会公众服务的公益观念。