She couldn't pin him down to a date.

她未能迫使他确定下日期。

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I need the up-to-date sales figures but I can never pin him down at the office.

我需要最新的销售数字，可就是不能在办公室找到他问清楚。

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I don't want to tie myself down to coming back on a particular date.

我不想限定自己在哪一天回来。

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Still,North Korea, also known as the DPRK, set no date for sitting down to talk about implementing its nuclear disarmament commitments.

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And again, I think these days they tend to down date it by another century or so, so it might be around 1900 B.C.

其实在今天,我认为他们又能把时间再推进,一个世纪左右,即精确到公元前一千九百年左右

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But should President Obama president have put down to let 2011 the date as the date of the begining of the withdrawl of American presence?

奥巴马总统是不是应该确定,2011年开始撤出美国势力？

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The fact that many hedge funds are down year to date further takes the luster off this once vaunted asset class.

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Shares of ZTE (HKG: 0763) on the Hong Kong exchange are down over 56 percent year to date and down 44 percent on their Shenzhen listing, priced in renmimbi.

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Mahindra shares on the Bombay Stock Exchange are down 9.91% year to date, but are outperforming rival Tata Motors (TTM), which is down 17.76% year to date.

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