peg down

确定
常用释义
固定住:用钉子或其他物品将某物固定在地面或其他表面上。
确定,限定:明确地确定或限定某事物。

例句

1·Peg down netting over the top to keep out leaves.

用销钉在顶上加固防护网,防止叶子落入。

2·The travelers are trying to peg down their tents in the storm.

旅游者在暴风雨中设法用木桩固定他们的帐篷。

3·He needed to be taken down a peg or two.

需要杀杀他的威风。

—— 《牛津词典》

4·They scrapped the yuan’s almost two-year peg to the dollar in June as part of winding down crisis policies. Since then, the currency has gained about 3 percent.

他们在六月的时候为了平息危机,废弃了两年以来的人民币美元的挂钩。

5·But new research may take these cosmic colossuses down a peg or two.

但是新的研究结果可能要刹一刹这些巨头的威风了。

6·He quotes the Asian expression that "the peg that stands out is pounded down" as evidence of deep differences in the way Asians and Westerners think about individuality.

他引用亚洲谚语“人怕出名猪怕壮”,作为亚洲人和西方人对个体性的认知存在深刻分歧的证据。

7·A world of one superpower was a dangerous place, said Mr Chirac, and he behaved as if taking America down a peg or two was part of France's vocation.

希拉克曾说,一个超级大国的世界是危险的。 他把煞美国的威风搞的像是法国本职工作的一部分。

8·Apple also wants to take HTC down a peg.

苹果公司也想杀杀宏达电(HTC)的威风。

9·Taking Hamas down a peg is one thing.

瓦解哈马斯是一回事。

10·But in the Hart case, the press came down firmly in favor of exposure, hanging the story on the wobbly peg of "character."

但在哈特的案子中,媒体一直坚定地支持曝光,让故事依赖于摇摆不定的“品德”借口。

同义词

用木钉钉住;约束