get down to doing

基本解釋

Shall we have a rest or get down to doing our work?
我們休息呢還是開始干活？
We set the goal, we see the goal, but when it comes down to doing, we get lost.
我們?cè)O(shè)立目標(biāo)，我們看得到目標(biāo)，但真正要去實(shí)踐的時(shí)候，我們卻迷失了。
I might make mistakes here and there, and there might be things I would never ever get down to doing, and some things are worth the extra mile, and some are best left alone.
在其它領(lǐng)域中我也會(huì)犯錯(cuò)，也有一些事是我永遠(yuǎn)無法專心去完成，有一些事是非常值得去做，有些則是最好丟著不管。
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I say that a typical phalanx is eight; however, by the time you get down to the fourth century and people are doing all kinds of new and innovative things, we hear that the left wing of the Boeotian army at Leuktra was fifty men deep.
常見的方陣有八行,然而四世紀(jì)時(shí),人們進(jìn)行了一系列的革新,聽說在洛伊克特拉城皮奧夏人的軍隊(duì),左翼縱深五十排
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