to be precise

基本解释

Sardines, to be precise.
准确地讲是沙丁鱼。
The answer is that humans have an uncontrollable urge to be precise, for better or (all too often) worse.
答案在于人类总是不可抑制地倾向于精确，或好或坏（后者更加频繁）。
Soon, they hope, many more investors will be searching for treasures buried on the seabed—or, to be precise, in the water flowing just above it.
他们希望不久就会有许多的投资者来搜寻埋藏在海床之下的财宝，或者，准确来说，是在海床之上的流水中。

But mathematically, we've mentioned this before, log N or really to be precise, log base 2 of N, is the way you express this mathematically.
但从数学上说，之前我们已经提到过了，准确地说是log，N，以2为底N的对数，这就是它在数学上的表示。
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But because we're now programming a computer at a lower level and because as we said last week, you really have to be precise and then careful to instruct this machine, this fairly dumb machine that will only do what you tell it to do very specific instructions, do we have to use a more precise syntax than just a puzzle piece might have previously allowed.
但是我们是要在电脑的低平台上编程不是吗？,那我们就要像我上周提到过的那样，一定要小心，小心，再小心地,操纵这台又聋又哑的机器,它只会根据你敲进去的,特定指令来做事，所以我们必须使用非常精细的语法,而不是模模糊糊，让人费解的概念。
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We could also go on and be a little more precise and say it belongs to a particular genre.
我们还可以进一步,更加精确地说,它属于某种独特的音乐风格
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Money—to be precise, lots and lots of money—has been an ingredient in many of the moves.
ECONOMIST: Investment-bank mergers