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
- Signing the contract will nail down our agreement.
在合同上签字将使我们的协议成为定案。 - If I do, then I may not want to or need to nail down the details.
如果是,那么我就不想做更多了,或者需要明确一些细节。 - 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。 - One is that the mainstream media are inexorably being dragged toward the Twitter, or news agency, model of constantly publishing and updating information, and away from the traditional approach of waiting for a while to nail down what is clearly true.
一是主流媒体被无情地拉向Twitter或连续发布和更新信息的典范&新闻通讯社,而告别等待一段时间以确认事实的传统方式。 - And go walking where there are no shops, crowds or the tube. Fee was forced to roll up Persian carpets and have Stuart nail down linoleum she bought sight unseen from the store in Gilly.
在没有商店、人群、地铁的地方漫步。菲被迫卷起了她的波斯地毯并叫斯图阿特钉上亚麻油地毯,这是她到吉利商店时即兴买下来的。 - 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。 - 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。 - It take the negotiator ten hour to nail down a deal
参加协商的人花了十个小时才敲定一桩生意 - Signing the contract will nail down their agreement.
签署合同将使他们的协议肯定下来。 - 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。