nitty-gritty

英 ['nɪtɪ ˈɡrɪti]

美 ['nɪtɪ ˈɡrɪti]

n.  基本事实; 重要细节

复数：nitty-gritties　

牛津词典

noun

• 基本事实；重要细节
  the basic or most important details of an issue or a situation
  1. Time ran out before we could get down to the real nitty-gritty .
     我们还没来得及探讨真正的细节，时间就过去了。

柯林斯词典

• N-SING 本质;实质;基本事实
  If people get down tothe nitty-grittyof a matter, situation, or activity, they discuss the most important, basic parts of it or facts about it.
  1. The city's newspapers still attempt to get down to the nitty gritty of investigative journalism.
     该市报纸仍在试图厘清调查性新闻的实质。
  2. ...the nitty gritty of everyday politics.
     日常政治生活的本质

英英释义

noun

• the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
  1. the gist of the prosecutor's argument
  2. the heart and soul of the Republican Party
  3. the nub of the story
  Synonym:kernelsubstancecorecentercentreessencegistheartheart and soulinwardnessmarrowmeatnubpithsum

双语例句

• This is the time to negotiate the nitty-gritty of numbers and benefits.
  现在时候商讨那些数字和利益了。
• There are times in your business processes, state machines, or other services where you might find yourself needing to write some nitty-gritty logic.
  有时在业务流程、状态机或者其他的服务中，可能需要编写一些细节逻辑。
• A third layer engages in the nitty-gritty of improving existing products within business units.
  第三层对业务部门内部的现有产品进行细节完善。
• Unusually, however, it requires applicants to have completed its 10-week executive PED ( professional executive development) programme, which teaches the nitty-gritty business basics, before they can apply for the EMBA.
  不过与众不同的是，IMD要求学员在申请EMBA前完成一个为期10周的执行性职业高管发展课程（PED），这个课程教授的是最基本的商业基础知识。
• Yet it is far from certain that focusing on the nitty-gritty of their companies 'business will help buy-out funds to reap the same rewards as loading them up with cheap debt and selling them into buoyant equity markets.
  但人们远不能确定，与利用廉价债务购买企业、然后在火爆的股市上出售相比，将重点放在其收购公司的经营细节方面，能否帮助收购基金获得同样的回报。
• You also have to know the nitty-gritty detail that city is an element attribute rather than a subtag content ( either way might make sense for the basic data in question).
  您还必须知道一些本质细节，city是元素属性，而不是子标记内容（任何一种方法都可能对正在讨论的基本数据有意义）。
• The GUIs are commonly known as window managers, because they occupy a layer above the nitty-gritty X-Windows layer and they manage windows for you.
  这些GUI通常被称为窗口管理器，因为它们占用了X-Windows细节层上面的一层，并且它们对窗口进行管理。
• The nitty-gritty stuff turns out to be more important.
  事实证明，细节更为重要。
• However, the formal sessions of this summit will concentrate on nitty-gritty trade issues such as harmonising rules of origin and relieving trade "chokepoints".
  不过，本次峰会的正式会谈将着重讨论基本贸易问题，如协调原产地规则和缓解贸易“瓶颈”。
• Author and relationship expert Marshall Miller believes cohabiting allows people to get to the nitty-gritty of the relationship before committing to marriage.
  作家兼情感专家马歇尔·米勒认为，同居能让人们在步入婚姻殿堂前了解恋情的本质。