For group decision-making to work well, you need a way to sort through the various options they propose: and you need a mechanism to narrow down these options.

要想让团队决策发挥作用，你需要有一种方法来梳理他们提出的各种方案，你还需要一种机制来缩小这些选择的范围。

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He or she may have a hundred from which to narrow down a handful of interviewees.

或许他需要从几百名中的应聘者中筛选出几位。

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He doesn't have any desire to narrow down the meaning of the text to one meaning.

他并不企图，把经文的意思局限于一个。

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You narrow down until you're sensitive just to the language you hear.

你逐渐缩小敏感的范围,直到只对你所使用的语言敏感

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If I went on and told you what the different incident light was, and what the electrons were ejected with, and then you could look up the ionization energy for the particular different elements, you should be able to actually determine exactly which element it is, but just with the information given, we can only narrow it down to these choices here.

如果我继续告诉大家入射光源是什么，出射电子的动能是多少，那么你可以去查一查,以上各个元素的电离能，这样你就应该能确定,这个元素到底是哪个，但是只凭题目中的信息，我们只能把范围缩小至以上几种元素。

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The Hirisplex system could allow investigators to narrow down a large group of possible suspects.

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Starting with a plan begins to narrow down a large world of possibilities.

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Searchers used the trajectory of the helicopter and cell phone signals from Ruppert's phone to narrow down the rescue area.

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