英汉例句

• learn a bit of wine speak — 「ripe black plums with an accent of earthy leather」 — and you are suddenly equipped with anchors to pin down your fleeting gustatory impressions.

  看看我们在描述酒的感觉时说的话—「熟的黑李子加粗俗的皮革口音」—你会觉得自己突然被锚住了，被自己飞快想到的味觉印象固定住了。

• so when people expect the yen「s appreciation to pin down the pace of development, when the toyota, toyota is not worried, because toyota products sold in the united states, 60% are locally produced.

  所以当有人指望日元升值能拖住丰田发展的步伐时，丰田并不担心，因为丰田在美国销售的产品中60%是在当地生产的。

• but whatever the professional musician may hold, most musical novices still search for specific words with which to pin down their musical reactions.

  但是，无论专业的音乐家持什么观点，大多数音乐新手仍然寻找具体的词，来描述他们的音乐反应。

• investigators scoured social networking sites such as facebook and myspace but initially could find no trace of him and were unable to pin down his location in mexico.

  调查人员搜寻了诸如facebook和myspace等社交网站，但一开始没有发现他的蹤迹，也就无法确定他在墨西哥的具体藏身点。

• we are often tempted to quantify core-body rotation numerically – e. g. more than 30 but less than 90 degrees – but few of us are likely to carry a protractor to the pool to pin down the number.

  我们经常尝试给转动定义个数据，比如大于30度小于90度。但是没有人会真的拿量角器到游泳池去量。

• 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。

• it」s hard to pin down the restaurant「s overarching theme (beyond the whimsical story of this madam), as the menu is chockablock with flavors from all over─french, italian, british, to name a few.

  很难说清楚这家餐厅的根本主题是什么（除了有关那位女士的离奇故事之外），因为菜单上的菜品囊括了所有风味──法式、意式、英式，等等。

• all carbon footprints are hard or impossible to pin down accurately, but the internet is a particularly complex case.

  所有的碳足迹都很难或者不太可能精确地算出来，对于互联网，情况更是复杂。

• the phenomenon is sometimes difficult to pin down given the guises under which such groups operate.

  这一现象有时不大容易说清，因为那些右翼集团做事往往有隐蔽性。

• researchers now routinely use optical tweezers based on this push to pin down and manipulate atoms and small objects.

  使用基于这种推力制作的光学镊子来控制与操作原子或小物体。

• dr. j. : astronomers have used hubble to observe cepheids and to pin down their distances much more accurately.

  博士：天文学家已应用哈勃望远镜来观测「造父变星」并以此更準确地计算出它们的距离。

• but it has been difficult to pin down the exact relationships between them.

  但要準确定义它们之间的关系还是有困难。

• banks are still scrambling to pin down their exposure to dubai world since the announcement last week of a standstill to debt repayments.

  自迪拜世界上周宣布暂停偿债以来，各银行仍在忙着确定自己对该公司的风险敞口。

• such models may also help to pin down the causes of diseases that arise from the interplay of genetic and environmental factors.

  这种模型也许能有助于发现基因与环境因素相互作用而引起的疾病的根本原因。

• 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。

• interest may be trickier to pin down than fear or joy but it nevertheless possesses one of the hallmarks of a basic emotion - its own facial expression.

  兴趣可能会比恐惧或是快乐实现起来更复杂，但是兴趣这种情绪具有基本情绪的一大特征：会在脸上表现出来。

• and that is one problem with those who would wish to include measures of wellbeing in policymaking: it is hard to pin down what they wish to measure.

  而这个错误恰恰是那些希望能在决策中加入对幸福的考量的政客常犯的：他们希望考量的那个东西，并无明确的定义。