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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

• 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。
• "Law of contract" in the286~ ( th) substantively stipulates the construction project priority, but this stipulation doesn t nail down the quality of this right.
  《合同法》第286条实质上规定的是建设工程优先权的内容，但该条规定并未明确其权利的性质。
• 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。
• 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 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 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。
• 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。
• To nail down the aim of a class is the premise of merging setting-up and producing, to design elastic teaching procedure is the assurance, and to control a class smartly is the linchpin.
  设计弹性教学方案是预设和生成“相融共荣”的保证。灵活驾驭课堂是预设和生成“相融共荣”的关键。
• 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。