| 词汇 | narrow down |
| 释义 | Phr V narrow down narrows, narrowing, narrowed narrow down sth or narrow sth down to make something {e.g. list, choice, option} smaller and clearer by removing the things that are less importantThe police department attempted to narrow down the list of suspects. often + toThe committee had narrowed the choices down to two. narrow down sth • narrow sth down to reduce the number of things you can consider or choose from, by getting rid of those that are not suitable: There aren't many cars within your price range, so that narrows down your choice considerably.+ to Police will continue to go through the list of suspects until they have narrowed it down to one.■ SIMILAR TO: reduce, whittle down narrow downTo pare the number of people or things on a list down to a more manageable or select number. A noun or pronoun can be used between "narrow" and "down." We've narrowed down our list of candidates to just three, but it's going to be nigh impossible to choose from them. Let's narrow it down to just our very top choices, otherwise we'll never pick a place to go. narrow something down (to people or things)to reduce a list of possibilities from many to a selected few. We can narrow the choice down to green or red. We narrowed down the choice to you or Paul. |
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