Narrows it down from just anyone in London.
(ロンドン市民全員から容疑者を絞り込むことができるんだ。)
BBCドラマ「シャーロック」エピソード1 "A Study in Pink" より。被害者の残したダイイングメッセージの謎が解けたホームズ。これで容疑者が絞り込める!
- "narrow something down""narrow down something"=「〜の範囲を限定する、しぼりこむ」(to reduce the number of things included in a range/to reduce a list of possibilities from many to a selected few)という意味。narrow something down to〜というように、うしろにtoをつけて、「(to以下に)しぼりこむ」という言い方もできる。
- The police have narrowed down their list of suspects.
- I've narrowed it down to one of two people.
- We can narrow the choice down to green or red.
- We narrowed down the choice to you or Paul.
- The choices have been narrowed down to two.
- To narrow down its pool of applicants, the school made its admission requirements stricter.
(BDは日本でも見られるけど、DVDはリージョン違いなのでご注意を!)