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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

• 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
• 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。
• 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 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。
• With government support set to play a crucial part in a deal, the participants are eager to nail down details before the election outcome potentially blurs authority between the Bush administration and its successor.
  由于政府支持将在这桩交易中起到至关重要的作用，交易各方迫切希望在大选前厘定细节，因为选举结果可能导致布什政府和新政府之间的权限变得模糊。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。