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
- But while Owen was top scorer on a regular basis for Liverpool in the Premier League, he struggled to nail down a starting place at the Bernabeu.
在英超中，欧文是利物浦联赛中的顶级射手，但在伯纳乌他却为主力位置而苦苦奋斗。 - 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。 - Signing the contract will nail down their agreement.
签署合同将使他们的协议肯定下来。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。