boil down to

英 [bɔɪl daʊn tu]

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

• In practice, it may boil down to this: Will China change?
  事实上，这可以归结成一个问题：中国会改变吗？
• 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。
• 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。”
• 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。
• On Marx's Proposition of "All Productive Forces Boil Down to Natural Forces"
  马克思论一切生产力都归结为自然力命题分析
• 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。
• We build prototypes for several reasons, all of which largely boil down to cost.
  我们因为一些原因构建产品原型，这些原因绝大多数出于成本的考虑。
• In all, they boil down to ten problems, or ten major relationships.
  综合起来，一共有十个问题，也就是十大关系。
• They boil down to one phrase: freedom of religious belief.
  归纳为一句话就是：宗教信仰自由。