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单词 nail down
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nail down

1. phrasal verb
If you nail down something unknown or uncertain, you find out exactly what it is.
It would be useful if you could nail down the source of this tension. [VERB PARTICLE noun]
[Also VERB noun PARTICLE]
2. phrasal verb
If you nail down an agreement, you manage to reach a firm agreement with a definite result.
The two leaders met to try to nail down the elusive accord. [VERB PARTICLE noun]
[Also VERB noun PARTICLE]
3. phrasal verb
If you nail something down, you fix it firmly onto something.
Lay strips of 4mm ply over the mesh and nail these down with panel pins. [VERB noun PARTICLE]
[Also VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)]
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nail down in British English

verb (tr, adverb)
1. 
to fasten down with or as if with nails
2.  informal
to extort a definite promise or consent from
I nailed them down on the deadline
3.  informal
to settle in a definite way
they nailed down the agreement

nail down in American English

1. 
to fasten tightly with nails
2. 
to settle definitely; clinch
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Examples of 'nail down' in a sentence
nail down

Friends in high places who could nail down a summer rental for me.
Barbara Delinsky PASSION AND ILLUSION (1983)

Chinese translation of 'nail down'

nail down

vt

  1. (= identify) 确(確)定 (quèdìng)
  2. (= agree on) 达(達)成 (dáchéng)
  3. (= attach) 钉(釘)牢 (dìngláo)
    to nail sb down to a date/price 要某人确(確)定日期/价(價)格 (yào mǒurén quèdìng rìqī/jiàgé)
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Nearby words of
nail down

  • nagging
  • nail
  • nail clippers
  • nail down
  • nail polish
  • nail polish remover
  • nail scissors

Related terms of
nail down

  • to nail sb down to a date/price
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