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

• I think, learning English can boil down to three simple ingredients: persistence, proper ways and good teachers.
  我，学习英语能总结为三个简单的因素：，的方法和好的老师。
• 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
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。”
• Third, the problems we face in China's economy can all boil down to structural problems, crude mode of growth and institutional problems.
  第三，中国经济发展中的问题，说到底是经济结构问题、经济增长方式问题和经济体制问题。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。