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.
在投票过去几个月后，麦凯恩的助手匿名对佩林拒绝听从命令、无视政策大肆攻击。
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.
希望国有大型企业保持价格稳定在某一水平是一回事，但是外国企业和他们的投资者肯定不会愿意接受一个“和谐”的利润缩水的方案。
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.
大银行董事会的社会关系学与此也有些关联，纽约斯特恩商学院的Ingo Walter认为：因为利益联盟，持不同政见者在那些循规蹈矩者中总要承受更大的压力。

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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