If you boil meat and bones in the pot full of water, what boils down after a while is of course meat and bones with some sticky soup. The pot is now perhaps half full because a lot of water has been ...

Boil down to something 是一个使用频率很高的动词短语，意思是“一个问题的主要原因在于，归根为.....”。如果一个问题或形势 boil down to something，那么这个“something”就是一件事情发生的根本原因。 例句 The reason for stopping the project boils down to lack of money. 停止这个 ...