pin down
US /pɪn daʊn/
・UK /pin daun/
A2 初級
phr. v.片語動詞受約束
He thought he should pin her down about what she meant
v.t.及物動詞迫使某人做決定
I tried to pin him down to a specific date for the meeting.
phr. v.片語動詞確定
I tried to pin down the exact time of the meeting, but no one seemed to know.
phr. v.片語動詞壓制
The police managed to pin down the suspect in a narrow alley.
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安德魯馬爾 2016/05/29 瓦魯法基斯、福克斯、布萊爾 (Andrew Marr 29/May/2016 Varoufakis, Fox, Blair)
- Union. To pin down what this will mean for mortgages, the value of the
這並非基於科學事實。討論
- And therefore, any attempt statistically to pin down what this will mean for mortgages, the, the value of the pound, uh, the trade and so on, it it's not based on any scientific fact.
Blair 的名字也當然出現在所有報紙上，他正在為自己的立場辯護。他的主要
12 個跡象表明你比自己意識到的要聰明得多 (12 Signs You’re Way More Intelligent Than You Realize)
- be difficult to pin down. You may find yourself laughing at things that no one else thinks are
難以確定。你可能會發現自己對一些別人不以為然的事情哈哈大笑。
- A Dark Sense of Humor Intelligent people have a sense of humor that can be difficult to pin down.
或者你會嘲笑別人不喜歡的陰暗話題。無論哪種情況，你都很難
流行文化：電影的意義是什麼？ (POP CULTURE: What Is Cinema For?)
- We should try to pin down more accurately what films actually do for us, then make sure we're reliably making and finding our way to seeing the best—that is, the most useful—kinds of films.
我們要求很多好的 但不是非常持久的東西的電影。
- We should try to pin down more accurately
what films actually do for us,
我們應該嘗試更準確地確定 電影到底為我們做了什麼。
漢明碼是什麼？誤碼修正的起源！ (But what are Hamming codes? The origin of error correction)
- to certain carefully selected subsets, you can ask a more refined series of questions that pin down the location of any single bit error.
你可能會抱怨，一個訊息只因為兩個位元翻轉就出錯，這太弱了，
- For example, as Hamming was searching for a way to identify where an error happened, not just that it happened, his key insight was that if you apply some parity checks not to the full message and but to certain carefully selected subsets, you can ask a more refined series of questions that pin down the location of any single bit error.
舉例來說，當漢明在尋找一種方法來辨識錯誤發生的位置，而不僅僅是錯誤發生了，他的關鍵洞見是，如果你對部分訊息而非整個訊息進行一些精心挑選的子集同位元檢查，你就可以提出一連串更精確的問題，來鎖定任何單一位元錯誤的位置。
英文口說：片語動詞是說一口流利美語的關鍵！ (Speaking English: Phrasal Verbs are CRITICAL for Speaking American English Well)
- For example, I keep trying to make lunch plans with Sarah, but I can't get her to pin down a date.
比如，我一直想和莎拉約好一起吃午餐，但卻無法讓她確定一個日期。
- but I can't get her to pin down a date.
區分是指能夠區分不同的事物。
10大被遺忘的音樂潮流！你還記得哪些？ (Top 10 Forgotten Music Trends)
- Shoegaze Shoegaze is difficult to pin down, but music fans know it when they hear it.
Shoegaze Shoegaze 難以確定，但樂迷一聽便知。
- Shoegaze is difficult to pin down, but music fans know it when they hear it.
畸形民謠這一亞流派確實是在上世紀 90 年代興起的，它讓樂迷們想起了心理音樂，而那些嚮往昔日嬉皮時光的人如今可以輕易地找到經典作品的再版，儘管如此，如今的廣告牌流行榜上並不一定有很多關於 "醇厚的黃色"（Mellow Yellow）的歌曲。5.
「被遺忘」的英文聽力技巧：與 Spiros Papageorgiou 深入解析！ (The “Forgotten” English Skill: A Deep Dive on Listening With Spiros Papageorgiou)
- There are so many factors that affect difficulty that it's almost impossible to just pin down difficulty of listening questions to just one thing.
有太多因素會影響難度了，所以幾乎不可能只憑藉一件事來確定聽力題目的難度。
- There are so many factors that affect difficulty that it's very, it's almost impossible to just pin down difficulty of listening questions to just one thing.
這是 TOEFL 設計的關鍵原則。
MIT 6.042J 數學導論 (電腦科學組) 2010年秋季班 | 第三講 (Lec 3 | MIT 6.042J Mathematics for Computer Science, Fall 2010)
- To really pin down the details, we should have checked those are the only two possible moves.
所以如果有 28 個字母順序顛倒，就可能有 28 種反轉。
- So that's right-- to really pin down the details,
所以沒錯——要真正確定細節，
美國對 TikTok 的愛恨情仇？ BBC 世界新聞網《全球故事》 podcast (America’s love-hate relationship with TikTok - The Global Story podcast, BBC World Service)
- So again, I know it's not great for a podcast in which we're kind of trying to pin down answers and look for there really are no very easy solutions here, at least no solutions that don't themselves throw up further questions and problems.
你知道，直接禁止。
- I know it's not great for a podcast in which we're kind of trying to pin down answers and look for.
我知道這對於一個我們試圖找出答案和尋找的播客來說，不是件好事。
威廉肯特里治專訪：我們如何理解世界？ (William Kentridge Interview: How We Make Sense of the World)
- It's difficult to pin down what it is that's in the mind that is different from chance.
很難說清到底是什麼東西在頭腦中與偶然不同。
- It's difficult to pin down what it is that's in the mind that is different from chance.
危險的是，有時一個人工作了六個月，而你本應在第一小時後就離開它。