nail是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 a small, thin piece of metal with one pointed end and one flat end that you hit into something with a hammer, especially in order to fasten or join it to something else -- 釘，釘子

  • a three-inch nail 三英寸長的釘子

  • I stepped on a nail sticking out of the floorboards. 我踩到了地板上凸出來的一顆釘子。

  • Hammer a nail into the wall and we'll hang the mirror from it. 在牆上釘個釘子，我們要把鏡子掛在上面。

• 1 a thin, hard area that covers the upper side of the end of each finger and each toe -- 指甲；趾甲

  • Stop biting your nails! 別再咬指甲了！

  • nail clippers 指甲刀

  • a nail file 指甲銼

• 2 to fasten something with nails -- 用釘子釘，將…釘牢

  • She had nailed a small shelf to the door. 她在門上釘了一個小架子。

  • A notice had been nailed up on the wall. 牆上釘了一張告示。

  • The lid of the box had been nailed down. 棺材蓋被釘死了。

• 3 to catch someone, especially when they are doing something wrong, or to make it clear that they are guilty -- （尤指當場）抓獲，逮住；證明…有罪，揭發

  • The police had been trying to nail those guys for months. 數月來，警方一直想抓住那幫傢夥。