pin down

常见例句

雙語例句

• 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。
• 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，一些世界上最傑出的外交家和律師紛紛反駁，他們認爲企圖在法律上明確定義侵略罪，不過徒勞無功之擧，弄不好還貽害無窮。

原聲例句

• "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.
  這個論証很難確定,是不是說得通。
  耶魯公開課 - 死亡課程節選
• 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，需要鎖定要談論，即學習的目標，可是，誰知道什麽是文學。
  耶魯公開課 - 文學理論導論課程節選

權威例句

• 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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