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

• What it all seemed to boil down to was money.
  这一切归结起来似乎就是一个“钱”字。
• Its elements are many and do not boil down to "utility" or some cash-value equivalent.
  它由许多部分组成，人们不能只归结它为一定的功效又或者某种等同于金钱价值的存在。
• These facts boil down to very little significance.
  这些事实没有多大意义。
• And in a world where many high-stakes issues fundamentally boil down to science, this is clearly a problem.
  在一个任何高风险问题从基础上归结为科学的社会，这显然是一个问题。
• Most of the crimes may boil down to a question of money.
  大多数犯罪归结起来可以说都是金钱问题。
• When an analyst models activities, they will boil down to human tasks or processing a system.
  当分析员建模活动时，他们通常将之对应到人工任务或系统处理。
• 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。
• These essentially boil down to performance, cost, and complexity.
  这些关键原因可归结为性能、成本及复杂性等方面。
• Hundreds of online articles and published books claim to know the secret of success in business, but for the most part, they boil down to the same major points.
  无数在线文章和图书宣称掌握了商业成功的秘诀，但事实上其中大多数都可以归结为几个相同的要点。
• They boil down to one phrase: freedom of religious belief.
  归纳为一句话就是：宗教信仰自由。