nitty-gritty

英 ['nɪtɪ ˈɡrɪti]

美 ['nɪtɪ ˈɡrɪti]

n.  基本事实; 重要细节

复数：nitty-gritties　

牛津词典

noun

• 基本事实；重要细节
  the basic or most important details of an issue or a situation
  1. Time ran out before we could get down to the real nitty-gritty .
     我们还没来得及探讨真正的细节，时间就过去了。

柯林斯词典

• N-SING 本质;实质;基本事实
  If people get down tothe nitty-grittyof a matter, situation, or activity, they discuss the most important, basic parts of it or facts about it.
  1. The city's newspapers still attempt to get down to the nitty gritty of investigative journalism.
     该市报纸仍在试图厘清调查性新闻的实质。
  2. ...the nitty gritty of everyday politics.
     日常政治生活的本质

英英释义

noun

• the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
  1. the gist of the prosecutor's argument
  2. the heart and soul of the Republican Party
  3. the nub of the story
  Synonym:kernelsubstancecorecentercentreessencegistheartheart and soulinwardnessmarrowmeatnubpithsum

双语例句

• The nitty-gritty stuff turns out to be more important.
  事实证明，细节更为重要。
• Before starting on a project, talk out the nitty-gritty details and what the extent of her involvement will be.
  在开启一个项目之前，坦率地和她谈一些细枝末节的地方，以及她要参与到什么程度。
• Jumping from high-order business workflow to the nitty-gritty details of transactions violates the SLAP principle.
  从高层的订单业务工作流跳到事务的细节是违反SLAP原则的。
• Mr Blair is not a politician who relishes the nitty-gritty of technical disputes in areas such as fishing quotas.
  布莱尔不是一位在捕鱼配额等本质上属于技术纠纷的领域中游刃有余的政治家。
• Not the broad strokes of sector and stage focus, but the nitty-gritty about how a firm makes its decisions on who to fund and how it prefers to structure its deals.
  这里所说的不是关于板块和阶段的泛泛之谈，而是风投公司的实质性决策，比如为谁提供资金以及它希望以怎样的结构进行操作。
• A third layer engages in the nitty-gritty of improving existing products within business units.
  第三层对业务部门内部的现有产品进行细节完善。
• In this article we'll delve further into the nitty-gritty of jealousy, when it begins and how it can quickly get out of control.
  我们将在这篇文章中深入探索嫉妒的真相-什么时候开始嫉妒？怎么样它就会变得失去控制？
• Author and relationship expert Marshall Miller believes cohabiting allows people to get to the nitty-gritty of the relationship before committing to marriage.
  作家兼情感专家马歇尔·米勒认为，同居能让人们在步入婚姻殿堂前了解恋情的本质。
• Judged from her impression, she can't have known the nitty-gritty.
  从她的表情判断，她不可能知道事实真相的。
• The GUIs are commonly known as window managers, because they occupy a layer above the nitty-gritty X-Windows layer and they manage windows for you.
  这些GUI通常被称为窗口管理器，因为它们占用了X-Windows细节层上面的一层，并且它们对窗口进行管理。