pin down
常見例句
- You must pin down every quotation to its author.
你一定要確定每一條引文的作者是誰。 - The teacher cannot pin down the essence of ancient poetry.
老師不能清楚地解釋古代詩歌的實質(zhì)。 - And for almost as long, some of the world’s best diplomatic and legal minds have retorted that trying to pin down a legal definition of aggression is at best fruitless, at worst harmful.
與此同時,一些世界上最杰出的外交家和律師紛紛反駁,他們認(rèn)為企圖在法律上明確定義侵略罪,不過徒勞無功之舉,弄不好還貽害無窮。 - "It is very difficult to really pin down and there have been these sorts of accusations from the Revolutionary Guards in the past."
- That's a quite difficult argument to pin down does it work or does it not work.
這個論證很難確定,是不是說得通。
耶魯公開課 - 死亡課程節(jié)選 - You need to pin down an object of study, a first principle from which other principles can emerge, and part of the process is to say, "Hey, it's not literature we're talking about.
首要原則是,需要鎖定要談?wù)?,即學(xué)習(xí)的目標(biāo),可是,誰知道什么是文學(xué)。
耶魯公開課 - 文學(xué)理論導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選 - Trading in private shares is growing rapidly, though it's hard to pin down exact numbers.
FORBES: Magazine Article - The stylized action game is actually hard to pin down to a single genre.
FORBES: Connect - Such observations yield a wealth of correlations, but it is much harder to pin down causation.
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