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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。
• The latter is characterized by the inability to nail down requirements up front, making it necessary to continually adapt and re-estimate as a project progresses.
  后者的特征是没有事先明确了解需求的能力，因而需要随项目的进展不断地调整适应和重新评估。
• 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。
• 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。
• Objective: to nail down manpower allocation of prevention and control of hepatitis B in CDC in cities and counties.
  前言：目的：明确我国地（县）级疾病预防控制中心乙肝防制工作人力配置需要。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。