她坚定地说明了公司的方针，为会议定下了调子。
She set the tone for the meeting with a firm statement of company policy.
“这在此前早该定下了。”—“我们不可能事事都考虑。”
"This should have been decided long before now."—"We can't think of everything."
重要的是定下了日子就要坚持下去。
你为你自己第一个赛季定下了进球目标么？
科学家们很快定下了行程亲自前往探一探究竟。
The scientists quickly booked a trip to check it out in person.
我们家里人明确定下了这个圣诞节去日本旅游。
Our family has decided that we will definitely be travelling to jaPan these chrisms holidays.
本周，一名法官定下了最新的终审日期——10月18号。
This week, a judge set a new and theoretically final date for Khadr's trial, Oct. 18.
在小学，他头发的颜色在第一天起就为他定下了性。
At primary school, he was defined by his hair colour from day one.
我们就定下了契约，我走进来，你对我会有所期待。
And, we enter into a contract. You walk in here, you have certain expectations of me.
苹果公司终于定下了iPhone手机官方发布日期。
Apple has made the launch date of iPhone official - at last.
这给公司重组及转制的说法如何被雇员接受定下了基调。
It sets the tone of how the company's reconstruction and transformation message is received.
一旦贿赂规矩定下了，拒绝掏腰包对大多数人是不现实的。
Yet when the bribes are for things that are their due, refusal to pay is unrealistic for most people.
十年前我为自己定下了一个规矩：如果媒体说有泡沫，我就会留心。
The rule I set for myself 10 years ago was that if the press calls it a bubble then I'd pay attention.
这样做无疑给申请文章定下了以错误的方式与招生官套近乎的不好基调。
Such essays set a bad tone that is going to rub the admissions officers the wrong way.
在立体式术语表达文件里，我定下了其它的描述，我感觉很好！
In the Cloverleaf Glossary files I located another description, which felt so good!
一是最近的科学发现给抗癌药物研究者定下了需要攻破的新课题。
Recent scientific discoveries have suggested new targets for cancer drug researchers to attack.
在某些情况下，设置成为一个性质本身，也定下了基调的一个故事。
In some cases, setting becomes a character itself and can set the tone of a story.
有些目标可能在你们俩相遇之前就已经定下了，在结婚前就在努力奋斗中。
Some of these goals may have been written in long before you two met each other, long before marriage was under consideration.
《阿凡达》及之前的《星球大战》都为未来技术如何助推电影定下了基调。
Avatar, like Star Wars before it, has set the tone for how technology will be used in film going forward.
这个自学成才的神童很快赢得了当地的一些比赛，他的职业生涯就此定下了轨道。
The self-taught prodigy was soon winning local tournaments, and the course of his career was set.
几小时后我终于睡着了，但确定下了两件事——我很享受这样并且依然崇拜着哥哥。
It was hours before I finally fell asleep but I was sure of two things - that I'd really enjoyed it and I still adored my brother.
一旦你定下了目标——经过你自己的计算、修改或只是借鉴——你就该去实践一下了。
Once you have a target -- one that you've calculated yourself, modified or simply borrowed -- then you need to put it to work.
当你定下了“旧习惯结束日期”或者“新习惯开始日期”，你就赋予那个日期特殊意义。
When you have a "Quit date" or "Start date", it gives that date an air of significance.
在以色列客人来访的情况下，奥巴马似乎给其承诺的美伊对话定下了一个粗略的最后期限。
With his Israeli guest at his side, Mr Obama appeared to set a rough deadline for his proposed dialogue with Iran.
序言达四页之长，光是以“我”为主语的例子就足足有34个，这便定下了整本书的基调。
The tone is set in the four-page prologue which contains 34 instances of the words "I", "me" or "my".
华尔街为世界其它地方的股市定下了基调：欧洲、亚洲和新兴市场的股市不可避免地紧跟着大幅下跌。
Inevitably, Wall Street set the tone for the rest of the world, with European, Asian and emerging markets falling heavily in its wake.
华尔街为世界其它地方的股市定下了基调：欧洲、亚洲和新兴市场的股市不可避免地紧跟着大幅下跌。
Inevitably, Wall Street set the tone for the rest of the world, with European, Asian and emerging markets falling heavily in its wake.
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