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

• These facts boil down to very little significance.
  这些事实没有多大意义。
• 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。
• He wrote a lot in his letter, which can boil down to it that he felt very sorry for his absence.
  他在信里写了很多，归结为一句话，他为他没有能来表示歉意。
• 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。
• The reasons for the gap boil down to this: smartphone screens are so tiny that browsing products online and entering credit card information is a pain.
  总体而言，造成这种差距的原因是：智能手机屏幕过小，浏览商品和输入信用卡信息对消费者来说是痛苦的体验。
• The problems with database size boil down to a more fundamental problem, however.
  然而，数据库大小的问题还会引起更重大的问题。
• 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。
• The explanations for the rise that never came might boil down to teething troubles.
  没有出现预期的上涨，其原因可以归结为万事开头难。
• 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。
• And the risk of hidden behind or to boil down to land management.
  和背后隐藏的风险，或归结为土地管理。