narrow down

英 [ˈnærəʊ daʊn]

美 [ˈnæroʊ daʊn]

缩减; 压缩; 减小

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 缩减;压缩;减小
  If younarrow downa range of things, you reduce the number of things included in it.
  1. What's happened is that the new results narrow down the possibilities...
     现有的情况是，新的结果缩小了可能性的范围。
  2. I've managed to narrow the list down to twenty-three.
     我已设法把清单上的项目压缩到了23项。

英英释义

verb

• become more focus on an area of activity or field of study
  1. She specializes in Near Eastern history
  Synonym:specializespecialisenarrow
• define clearly
  1. I cannot narrow down the rules for this game
  Synonym:pin downpeg downnail downnarrowspecify

双语例句

• He or she may have a hundred from which to narrow down a handful of interviewees.
  或许他需要从几百名中的应聘者中筛选出几位。
• Now you are able to check each part of the car and narrow down the location of the problem.
  现在您能够检查汽车的每个部分并缩小问题的所在范围。
• We cannot assume that everybody will watch the game, we have to narrow down the major characteristics of our target audience.
  我们不能设想每个人都观看比赛，我们必须缩小目标受众的主要特点。
• Most of the above points would narrow down to strong lack of communication and uninspiring ambience of the workplace.
  上面大多数问题都会归结到缺乏沟通和气氛压抑的工作环境之上。
• Naturally, it makes sense to narrow down the set of documents first and then evaluate the relevant subset.
  一种合理的做法是先缩小文档集的范围然后再计算相关的子集。
• Narrow down your activities to one or two to keep things in check.
  控制一下，把你的活动压缩到一两项。
• Then we make mood boards and narrow down and change our mind.
  然后我们做情绪板，缩小范围，进行修改。
• Finally, Exhibit offers facets, a set of tools to help users search and narrow down the data to find what they need.
  最后，Exhibit提供了facet，这是一组工具，可用来帮助用户搜索和缩小搜索范围以便找到他们所需的数据。
• I'd appreciate any more information regarding the alleged, so we can narrow down who is funding thier actions. I have my suspicions based on who they are not attacking.
  如果有更多信息关于这些嫌疑的话我会很感谢，这样我们能缩小范围，知道是谁滋长了他们的行动。我都已经在怀疑他们还有谁没有攻击过。
• The other two boxes are lists of properties ( author and tag, respectively) the user can select to narrow down the entries to only those that match.
  另外两个框是属性列表（分别为作者和标记），用户可以对其进行选择，以便将输入进一步缩小范围到只包括匹配的那些。