pin down

常见例句

双语例句

• You must pin down every quotation to its author.
  你一定要确定每一条引文的作者是谁。
• The teacher cannot pin down the essence of ancient poetry.
  老师不能清楚地解释古代诗歌的实质。
• 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.
  与此同时，一些世界上最杰出的外交家和律师纷纷反驳，他们认为企图在法律上明确定义侵略罪，不过徒劳无功之举，弄不好还贻害无穷。

原声例句

• "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.
  这个论证很难确定,是不是说得通。
  耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选
• 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.
  首要原则是，需要锁定要谈论，即学习的目标，可是，谁知道什么是文学。
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权威例句

• 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.
  FORBES: Can Markets Work in Medicine?
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