| 词汇 | shoehorned |
| 释义 | shoehorned past simple and past participle ofshoehorn 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 cram something into something dig dig (something) into someone/something embed embedded insertion inset interlace interlayer interpolation lodge reinsert reinsertion rethread shoehorn squash stick stuck Examples of shoehornedshoehorned In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. But not all history can be shoehorned into a colonial/pre-colonial mould. This information has often been cobbled together from previous reports with further second-hand information then being shoehorned to fit an already decided agenda or outcome. However, seemingly in order more accurately to represent the many facets of the cloning debate, other issues were "shoehorned" into the story. This does not mean that perception and conceptualization occur by some crude best fit principle whereby new experience is shoehorned into existing, more or less ill-fitting categories. 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 For too long, children's health has had a raw deal in this country, particularly if the child cannot be shoehorned into the infant or young adult categories. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The inclusion of police as best value authorities, inappropriately shoehorned into a structure that is essentially designed for local government, will reinforce many of the problems. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But some of us are not, and more and more are refusing to be shoehorned into monogamy. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The premise is shoehorned into working rather than organically feeling like the right thing to do. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He also praised the lyric as a tried-but-true drinkin and cryin lyric for something that manages to sound modern without feeling uncomfortably shoehorned in there. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. This produced a number of other visual artifacts; new streets and neighborhoods had to be shoehorned into layouts designed around previously existing features. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. But sadly, he offers nothing new and nothing remarkable, and the plot is thin with complications literally shoehorned in. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. But the ferns in the loose sense are much too diverse a group to be shoehorned into one taxon at such a low rank. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Shoehorned prophecies usually take vague prophecies and twist them to mean the event in question even if the evidence for the connection is shaky. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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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