boil down to

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美 [bɔɪl daʊn tu]

重点是; 将…归结为

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB-ERG 重点是；将…归结为
  If you say that a situation or problemboils down toa particular thing or canbe boiled down toa particular thing, you mean that this is the most important or the most basic aspect of it.
  1. What they want boils down to just one thing. It is land...
     他们说穿了就是想要一样东西，那就是土地。
  2. For Malcolm work could always be boiled down to one idea: being good in business.
     对于马尔科姆来说，工作归根结底就是要取得好的业绩。

双语例句

• So in an uncertain economy, staying Agile may well boil down to reaffirming trust relationships.
  所以在一个不确定的经济环境中，坚持敏捷也可能再次肯定信任关系。
• SDRs are complex but they boil down to the international creation of money.
  特别提款权很复杂，但归结起来就是国际性的货币创造。
• The problems with database size boil down to a more fundamental problem, however.
  然而，数据库大小的问题还会引起更重大的问题。
• He wrote a lot in his letter, which can boil down to it that he felt very sorry for his absence.
  他在信里写了很多，归结为一句话，他为他没有能来表示歉意。
• From this list of thought-leading companies, the concept seems to boil down to this: "thought leader" is simply a new and unhelpful way of saying successful.
  从这个思想引领型公司名单中，似乎可以归结出这样一个概念：“思想领袖”只是一种新毫无用处的描述成功的新方式。
• Most political rows and scandals boil down to oil or gas.
  政客们常争得面红耳赤，互相揭短，为的也无非就是石油和天然气。
• It seems to me to boil down to three precepts, two of which can be applied by others, and the third not.
  在我看来，这些经验可以归结为3条箴言，其中两条可以适用于其他人，而第3条无法复制。
• You can use several different techniques, but all boil down to "defer work as long as possible."
  您可以使用几种不同的技术，但是所有技术都归结于“尽可能地延迟工作。”
• The explanations for the rise that never came might boil down to teething troubles.
  没有出现预期的上涨，其原因可以归结为万事开头难。
• For Malcolm work could always be boiled down to one idea: being good in business.
  对于马尔科姆来说，工作归根结底就是要取得好的业绩。