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词组 pin
释义 pin
  [pinned, pinned, pinning]
 pin down
  1. pin down sthpin sth down to understand or explain exactly what something is or what it is like:
    The company is keen to review its recent performance and pin down some of the problem areas.
    Bobby heard a voice at the door which brought back some distant memory, but he couldn't quite pin it down.
   be difficult/hard/impossible to pin down
    It is estimated that there are about 5 million illegal immigrants in the US, but the numbers are impossible to pin down.
    SIMILAR TO: ↑identify
  2. pin sb downpin down sb to make someone give you exact details or make a definite decision about something, especially when they have been trying to avoid doing this:
    I never know where Bernard is these days - it's impossible to pin him down.
   + to
    They've been promising to meet us for ages, but I can't pin them down to a date.
    SIMILAR TO: ↑nail down
  3. pin sb downpin down sb to force someone to stay in a particular position by holding them down so that they cannot move:
    He had the child pinned down on the grass.
  4. pin down sbpin sb down to prevent enemy soldiers from escaping by surrounding the area where they are:
    The plan was to head straight for Kuwait City, and pin down the Iraqis there.
 pin on/upon ! Pin upon is more formal than pin on and is mostly used in writing
  1. pin sth on/upon sb if you pin the blame for something on someone, you say that they are responsible for something bad that has happened, often when this is not true:
    Don't try to pin the blame on me.
    The president was trying to pin the economic problems on Republican lawmakers.
    SIMILAR TO: ↑stick on BrE informal
  2. pin sth on/upon sb if you pin a crime on someone, you accuse them of having done it, often when this is not true:
    Lawmen and prosecutors, desperate to please the public, pinned the murders on Sharif.
    "I don't know anything about a burglary," the boy said. "You can't pin it on me."
  3. pin your hopes/faith on sb/sth if you pin your hopes on something or someone, you hope very much that something will happen successfully or someone will help you, because your plans depend on it:
    The company says it's pinning its hopes on new products to increase its profits.
    Charles needed someone to do him a favour, and he was pinning his hopes on Guy.
 pin up
  1. pin sth uppin up sth to fasten a picture, note, photograph etc to a wall:
    A photograph of her son was pinned up by her desk.
    There's a postcard from Joe - I'll pin it up over here.
    pin-up n C a photograph of an attractive famous person, that people stick on their walls, or a person who appears in one of these photographs:
    Leonardo Di Caprio, the latest teenage pin-up
    a pin-up girl
  2. pin up sb's hair if a woman pins up her hair, she puts it up on her head and fixes it there with pins, instead of letting it hang down around her shoulders.:
    Karin found it easier to keep her hair tidy if she wore it pinned up.
 pin upon
   ► see ↑pin on
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