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 -- 钉，钉子

  • a three-inch nail 3英寸长的钉子

  • I stepped on a nail sticking out of the floorboards. 我踩到了地板上凸出来的一颗钉子。

  • Hammer a nail into the wall and we'll hang the mirror from it. 在墙上钉个钉子，我们要把镜子挂在上面。

• 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! 别再咬指甲了！

  • nail clippers 指甲刀

  • a nail file 指甲锉

• 2 to fasten something with nails -- 用钉子钉，将…钉牢

  • She had nailed a small shelf to the door. 她在门上钉了一个小架子。

  • A notice had been nailed up on the wall. 墙上钉了一张通知。

  • The lid of the box had been nailed down. 棺材盖被钉死了。

• 3 to catch someone, especially when they are doing something wrong, or to make it clear that they are guilty -- （尤指当场）抓获，逮住；证明…有罪，揭发

  • The police had been trying to nail those guys for months. 数月来警方一直想抓住那帮家伙。