pin down

英 [pɪn daʊn]

美 [pɪn daʊn]

确定; 证实; 迫使…作出决定（或明确表态）

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 确定；证实
  If you try topinsomethingdown, you try to discover exactly what, where, or when it is.
  1. It has taken until now to pin down its exact location...
     直到现在才确定了它的准确位置。
  2. I can only pin it down to between 1936 and 1942...
     我只能确定是在1936至1942年期间。
  3. If we cannot pin down exactly what we are supposed to be managing, how can we manage it?
     如果我们都不能确切地知道自己该管理什么，那又怎么去管理呢？
• PHRASAL VERB 迫使…作出决定（或明确表态）
  If youpinsomeonedown, you force them to make a decision or to tell you what their decision is, when they have been trying to avoid doing this.
  1. She couldn't pin him down to a date...
     她没有办法强迫他答应约会。
  2. ...their repeated efforts to pin him down on a number of topics...
     他们迫使他对一系列问题明确表态的再三努力
  3. If you pin people down, they will tell you some puzzling things about stress.
     如果非让他们说的话，人们会告诉你一些有关压力的令人费解的事情。

英英释义

verb

• define clearly
  1. I cannot narrow down the rules for this game
  Synonym:peg downnail downnarrow downnarrowspecify
• attach with or as if with a pin
  1. pin up a picture
  Synonym:pin up
• place in a confining or embarrassing position
  1. He was trapped in a difficult situation
  Synonym:trap

双语例句

• Other causes are harder to pin down.
  其它原因就很难下定论了。
• Yet this number is hard to pin down.
  但这个数字很难弄清楚。
• It has taken until now to pin down its exact location
  直到现在才确定了它的准确位置。
• He is a difficult man to pin down.
  他是个不易就范的人。
• The Boy had to pin down the dog to wash him.
  这男孩必须扣牢这只狗帮它洗澡。
• The question simply has too many possible answers. I can't seem to pin down exactly.
  这个问题有太多可能的答案。我很难作出确定的结论。
• If you could try and pin down where you were.
  如果我能确定你到底在哪儿。
• It is hard to pin down what has been causing honeybees to vanish.
  很难确定是什么原因使蜜蜂突然消失。
• It is easier to pin down fraud at the bottom of this chain that at the top.
  揭露这个链条底部的欺诈行为，要比针对链条顶部更容易。
• Damn! That was terrible. I only knocked the 10 pin down.
  该死！真糟糕，我只击倒了10号瓶子。