get down to doing

基本解释

Shall we have a rest or get down to doing our work?
我们休息呢还是开始干活？
We set the goal, we see the goal, but when it comes down to doing, we get lost.
我们设立目标，我们看得到目标，但真正要去实践的时候，我们却迷失了。
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.
在其它领域中我也会犯错，也有一些事是我永远无法专心去完成，有一些事是非常值得去做，有些则是最好丢着不管。
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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.
常见的方阵有八行,然而四世纪时,人们进行了一系列的革新,听说在洛伊克特拉城皮奥夏人的军队,左翼纵深五十排
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