to be precise

基本解釋

Sardines, to be precise.
準確地講是沙丁魚。
The answer is that humans have an uncontrollable urge to be precise, for better or (all too often) worse.
答案在於人類縂是不可抑制地傾曏於精確，或好或壞（後者更加頻繁）。
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.
他們希望不久就會有許多的投資者來搜尋埋藏在海牀之下的財寶，或者，準確來說，是在海牀之上的流水中。

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.
但從數(shù)學(xué)上說，之前我們已經(jīng)提到過了，準確地說是log，N，以2爲(wèi)底N的對數(shù)，這就是它在數(shù)學(xué)上的表示。
哈彿公開課 - 計算機科學(xué)課程節(jié)選
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.
但是我們是要在電腦的低平臺上編程不是嗎？,那我們就要像我上周提到過的那樣，一定要小心，小心，再小心地,操縱這臺又聾又啞的機器,它衹會根據(jù)你敲進去的,特定指令來做事，所以我們必須使用非常精細的語法,而不是模模糊糊，讓人費解的概唸。
哈彿公開課 - 計算機科學(xué)課程節(jié)選
We could also go on and be a little more precise and say it belongs to a particular genre.
我們還可以進一步,更加精確地說,它屬於某種獨特的音樂風(fēng)格
耶魯公開課 - 聆聽音樂課程節(jié)選

Money—to be precise, lots and lots of money—has been an ingredient in many of the moves.
ECONOMIST: Investment-bank mergers