词汇 | boil down |
释义 | boil down 1. be reduced by boiling 煮浓 * These apples will soon boil down to jelly. 这些苹果不久就会煮成果酱了。 2. be reduced to its real meaning; mean; summarise 意味着;归结为;使缩短 * You can boil down the story to a few sentences. 你可以用几句话来概括这个故事。 * What the foreign minister said boiled down to the rejection of the proposal. 外交部长的话意味着拒绝这项建议。 * The whole discussion boils down to the question of whether the government should fix prices. 整个讨论归结到政府是否应当规定价格。 |
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