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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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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
• 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。
• 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。
• But I will just nail down and do my best to win a place in the team for the next game.
  但是在下一场比赛，我铁定做到最好以赢得首发位置。