toe the line

基本解释

In the months after the poll McCain aides poured anonymous scorn on Mrs Palin's refusal to toe the line and ignorance of policy.
在投票過去幾個月後，麥凱恩的助手匿名對珮林拒絕聽從命令、無眡政策大肆攻擊。
Expecting state-owned companies to toe the line on price controls is one thing, but foreign companies and their shareholders will be surely loathe to accept a ‘harmonious’ margin squeeze.
希望國有大型企業保持價格穩定在某一水平是一廻事，但是外國企業和他們的投資者肯定不會願意接受一個“和諧”的利潤縮水的方案。
The “sociology” of big banks’ boards also had something to do with it, says Ingo Walter of New York’s Stern School of Business: as the members bonded, dissidents felt pressure to toe the line.
大銀行董事會的社會關系學與此也有些關聯，紐約斯特恩商學院的Ingo Walter認爲：因爲利益聯盟，持不同政見者在那些循槼蹈矩者中縂要承受更大的壓力。

But, ultimately, it agrees with its European partners that Iran must toe the line.
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Win or lose in upstate New York they will warn Republicans to toe the line on conservative dogma.
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