Surely I didn't nail it first time.

当然，头一次嘛，我也不是那么确定。

Mr McCrum hovers over this point, but does not nail it.

虽然麦考利先生只停留在了他的观点上，但是并没有钉死它。

He didn't really nail it completely until he gave it before the crowd.

在他给大家作演讲之前，他并没有完全确定。

If you want the cupboard door open all the time, why don't you nail it back?

如果你想让柜子门总开著，为什么不用钉子把门反钉住?。

Because you have very few scenes and you have to really nail it in those scenes.

因为这种角色镜头很少，你只要牢牢把握好这几个镜头就可以了。

Maybe I'd be an astronaut, be the first to find a new alien lifeform - and nail it!

也许我会成为一个宇航员呢，成为第一个发现并且抓住外星人的人！

And it's impossible to really nail it down because we all have different goals in life.

而这个值是不可能真正固定下来，因为我们都有不同的生活目标。

It is usually going to be slow to start to react to a crisis, but quick to finally nail it.

通常他们应对危机时反应缓慢，但是却可以迅速‘处理’它。

Once we've established some measure of comfort or stability, we want to nail it in place so that there's no possibility of loss.

一旦我们认定了什么是好的，什么是稳定的，我们就想把它钉死而期望它决无再松动的可能。

Windproof: It is suitable for all kinds of roof, including that of high buildings due to its special way of installation – to nail it horizontally.

基于其独特的水平打钉安装方式，金属瓦适用于各种建筑屋顶，包括高层建筑。

Because the research about problem solving is that if you start targeting any problem in your life, and nail it, all the other problems become easier.

因为有关解决问题的研究表明如果你开始瞄准了生活中任何其中一个问题，并解决掉了，那么其它的问题就会变得更容易。

What this objection is really saying is that people aren't comfortable with the idea of emergent design: letting the design of the system emerge, rather than trying to nail it all down at the start.

这种异议真正要说的是人们对 紧急设计（emergent design）这种思想感到不舒服：允许系统设计不断出现变化，而不是开始时就设法把一切确定下来。

The eldest said, "it is nothing but a nail in the wall."

大女儿说：“这只不过是墙上的一颗钉子。”

Only a bit of string looped round a nail in the doorpost held it shut.

仅凭一小段绕在门框钉子上的绳子将门关住。

"I think it would civilize people a bit more if they had decent conditions."—"I think you've hit the nail on the head."

“我认为如果人们有好的条件，就会使其更有教养一点。”—“我想你说到点子上了。”

It would be useful if you could nail down the source of this tension.

如果你能弄清这种紧张情绪的根源，会是有用的。

It is smaller than a finger-nail, but it can store more than a million "bits" of information.

它比指甲还小，但却能存储100多万比特的信息。

I went home and practiced hitting a nail with a stick till I could do it, and I got up very early this morning, and tried again.

我回到家，练习用棍子打钉子，直到我能做到为止。今天早上我很早起床，然后再次尝试。

When you work in a particular language for a long time, it becomes the golden hammer: every problem looks like a nail that can be driven by the abstractions in your language.

当长时间使用一种特定的语言时，它就成了金锤：每个问题看上去就像一个钉子，可以用该语言的抽象来驱动。

Too many times IT departments try to use the SOA hammer to approach every problem as a nail.

太多次IT部门试图使用SOA锤子将每个问题作为钉子解决。

It isn't until you spill the bottle, and nail polish gets all over the carpet that you realize you can't stop crying.

直到你把瓶子洒了，指甲油弄得地毯上到处都是，你才意识到你止不住哭泣。

Again - very happy I don't dye my hair, and come to think of it, I don't wear nail polish any longer either.

再次庆幸自己不会染发了，想起来自己也很久没涂指甲油了。

On the Ph scale, it is very acidic and can dissolve a nail in about 4 days.

它的PH值相当的低，可以在4天左右把一颗铁钉溶解掉。

I smashed my fingers with a hammer, and my father showed me how to pinch the nail with my thumb and forefinger, gently tapping its head until it stood upright by itself.

我用锤子击伤了我的手指，父亲就告诉我应该怎样用我的拇指和食指来捏住钉子，轻轻敲打钉子的头部，直到钉子自己直了起来。

It was my first film, and I see every mistake, every hang-nail in the whole picture, but I still appreciate it as a piece of story telling.

这是我的第一部电影，我能看出整个画面中的每一个错误和每一处小瑕疵，但我仍然欣赏它叙事的方式。

Professional framers now use nail guns that can drive in dozens of nails in the time it takes to hammer in one nail.

现在专业的制造者使用钉子枪能够在用锤子钉入一颗钉子的时间内钉入很多钉子。

Then it is likely one of them will find the easiest path immediately, and nail the bug in a much shorter time.

他们其中很可能有人立即就能找到一条快捷的途径，所以在极短的时间里就能修复问题。

Not, perhaps, a nail-biting plot. But it is a perfectly plausible description of the future of crime-fighting.

或许，这并不是一个扣人心弦的情节，但是这对打击罪案的将来将是一个合理到完美的描述。