| 词汇 | shoehorn |
| 释义 | shoehorn noun[ C ] uk /ˈʃuː.hɔːn/ us /ˈʃuː.hɔːrn/ a smooth, curved piece of plastic or metal that you hold in the back of your shoe when putting it on, to help your foot slide into it鞋拔 EkaterinaZakharova/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages Shoes ankle boot ballet flat ballet shoe Birkenstock bootie gym shoe high heels high-heeled high-top hiking boot rubber boot running shoe sandal shoelace shoemaker walking boot wedge wedgie wellie wellington shoehorn verb[ Toften passive ] informaluk /ˈʃuː.hɔːn/ us /ˈʃuː.hɔːrn/ to fit something tightly in a particular place, often between two other things: 把…塞进;把…嵌入 This tiny restaurant is shoehorned between two major banks.这家小饭店夹在两家大银行之间。 Inserting and forcing things into other things bed cram something into something dig dig (something) into someone/something embed embedded insertion inset interlace interlayer interpolation jam lodge reinsert reinsertion rethread squash stick stuck wedge shoehorn | American Dictionaryshoehorn noun[ C ] us/ˈʃuˌhɔrn/ a smooth, curved piece of plastic or metal that is placed in the back of a shoe when putting it on in order to help the foot slide in more easily shoehorn verb[ T ] us/ˈʃuˌhɔrn/ to fit something or someone into a tight place: We’d have to build another school to shoehorn all our students in. Examples of shoehornshoehorn Instead, he has set out measures that aim to shoehorn our economy into the structure that he thinks will fit the euro. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He knows that such persons are determined to shoehorn all of life's experience into the romantic view. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Underneath the fuselage was a long shoehorn -style float, that extended forward underneath the engine and propeller. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Lawyers had to engage in great ingenuity to shoehorn their clients' claims into existing forms of action. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The word is derived from shoehorn, a smooth curved implement, often of plastic or metal, inserted at the heel to help put on a shoe. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Other accessories accompanying the doll were a story and comic book, shoehorn, and paper wrist tag that was also a numbered warranty card. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The small shoehorn radiator couldn't provide enough air for the massive 6-liter engine so a large aperture was needed below it. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A shoehorn was built around the tunnel, just enough as to not be too sharp for the locomotives, opening up a fantastic view of the valley. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. However, seemingly in order more accurately to represent the many facets of the cloning debate, other issues were "shoehorned" into the story. She picked up other people's turns of phrase, and used them to shoehorn her way into interaction. Moreover, the short introductions to the three sections serve to shoehorn each chapter into the general conceptual project of the book. Deficits in perceptual organization are particularly difficult to shoehorn into dopamine theories of the disorder. Hospitals have been trying to shoehorn the costs of ethics services into invisible crevices since ethics services started appearing in hospitals. Why should its three natural time zones be shoehorned into one, other than for bureaucratic tidiness? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am at the stage where my feet are being shoehorned rather unwillingly into the shoes of trusteeship. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of shoehorn These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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