He set out with an apparently simple aim: to pin down the precise meaning of the concept of "information".
他的出发点显然很简单：确定“信息”这个概念的确切含义。
Inspired by Halley's suggestion of a way to pin down the scale of the Solar System, teams of British and French astronomers set out on expeditions to places as diverse as India and Siberia.
受哈雷提出的确定太阳系大小的方法启发，英国和法国天文学家团队开始在印度和西伯利亚等地考察。
I almost knocked the bowling pin down.
我几乎要把这堆保龄球瓶打倒了。
If his identity is hard to pin down, his fears and hopes are easier to read.
假如他的身份很难确定，那他的担心和希望还是更容易弄懂一些。
Knowing that there is a problem does not necessarily help to pin down what it is.
要知道仅仅解决一个问题并不能确切地说明问题的所在。
Given a matching index, a single index fetch will pin down the row to be retrieved.
给定一个匹配的索引，通过一个单独的取索引操作就可以得到要检索的行。
Wheatley and Looser set out to pin down the point at which a face starts to look alive.
惠特丽和露泽着手找出脸在哪个点看起来有生机。
Indeed, the very number of transgender people in the country and the state is hard to pin down.
的确，在整个国家或一个州内变性人的数字很难确定。
If you want to pin down a character that doesn't want to be found, you don't use a movie star.
要是想要诠释一个从未存在过的人物，就不要启用电影明星。
If they can pin down the relationship between age and rotation, a star's age will be much easier to measure.
如果他们能够确定星星年龄与转速之间的关系，星星的年龄测起来就简单的多了。
This is to pin down dark matter and dark energy-the 95% of the universe the Standard Model doesn't explain.
这场较量的目的是理解暗物质和暗能量——在宇宙中占95%却无法用标准模型解释。
The effects have been hard to pin down because studies of different groups have produced conflicting results.
但是由于不同的研究小组总是得出矛盾的结论，所以一直没有确定。
The requirements are difficult to pin down, and significant challenges are often posed by legacy data sources.
需求很难查明，遗留数据源常常提出重大的挑战。
When corporations' main assets are intangible the location of their profit is still more difficult to pin down.
如果企业的主要资产是无形资产，那么它们利润的产生地就更加难以确定。
This exhibition promises not just to celebrate the work of an important artist, but to pin down an elusive figure.
这次的展览绝对不只是歌颂一位颇具影响力的艺术家的成就，更是要揭开他的神秘面纱，确立他的形象。
All carbon footprints are hard or impossible to pin down accurately, but the Internet is a particularly complex case.
所有的碳足迹都很难或者不太可能精确地算出来，对于互联网，情况更是复杂。
Pin down the most important events in red - those deadlines and meetings that you cannot miss under any circumstances.
把最重要的事情标记为红色——这些事情和会议在任何情况下都不能错过。
Some expect Apple and Microsoft to Sue Google. Yet this is unlikely, because the online giant will be hard to pin down.
有些人期待苹果和微软起诉谷歌，然而这是不太可能的事情，因为谷歌这个网络巨人是很难被扳倒的。
After all, being honest or dishonest involves a set of cognitive and social factors which may prove too complex to pin down.
毕竟诚实与不诚实所涉及的可能是太复杂而难以确定的一系列认知和社会因素。
For something so influential and intuitively appealing, it turns out that the Hawthorne effect is remarkably hard to pin down.
作为一个如此具有影响力以及从直觉上引人入胜的理论，“Hawthorne ”效应却显得异常难以证实。
Previous research had determined that skin could absorb water, but couldn't pin down why it didn't fall apart when it expanded.
先前的研究断定皮肤能够吸收水分，但是未能找出皮肤膨胀后不会破裂的确切原因。
Such models may also help to pin down the causes of diseases that arise from the interplay of genetic and environmental factors.
这种模型也许能有助于发现基因与环境因素相互作用而引起的疾病的根本原因。
Why do I speak in generalities when strangers ask me what I do for a living and then try to pin down what kind of books I write?
为什么在陌生人问我职业的时候我会含糊其辞且试图压制我所写作的书呢？
Using neutrons to better understand food is a new field but is ideal to pin down sub-nanoscale detail in molecules, says Teixeira.
将中子应用到食品研究中是一个新的领域，但要得到相应分子的亚纳米级信息还需时日，特谢拉说。
This is because the behavior diffuses into the target system and is difficult both for humans to pin down and for tools to analyze.
这是因为行为混入到了目标系统中，让人很难把握或者用工具分析。
The ultimate balance between jobs created and killed is difficult to pin down, but the net result is far murkier than it might seem.
增加就业和降低就业很难保持完全平衡，但是结果远不是像看上去的那样清晰。
The talks also will pin down the cost of spare parts, training rounds, training courses, delivery dates, documentation and other details.
会谈也将牵涉到备件的成本，训练弹，培训课程，交付日期，文件和其他的细节。
The talks also will pin down the cost of spare parts, training rounds, training courses, delivery dates, documentation and other details.
会谈也将牵涉到备件的成本，训练弹，培训课程，交付日期，文件和其他的细节。
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