shoehorn

英 [ˈʃuːhɔːn]

美 [ˈʃuːhɔːrn]

n.  鞋拔
v.  把…硬塞进

过去分词：shoehorned　过去式：shoehorned　现在分词：shoehorning　第三人称单数：shoehorns　

BNC.44436 / COCA.29939

牛津词典

noun

• 鞋拔
  a curved piece of plastic or metal, used to help your heel slide into a shoe

verb

• 把…硬塞进
  to succeed in putting sth into a small space or a place where it does not fit very easily
  1. They managed to shoehorn the material onto just one CD.
     他们设法把材料仅仅塞进一张光盘。

柯林斯词典

• 鞋拔
  Ashoehornis a piece of metal or plastic with a slight curve that you put in the back of your shoe so that your heel will go into the shoe easily.
• VERB 把…硬塞进
  If youshoehornsomethingintoa tight place, you manage to get it in there even though it is difficult.
  1. Their cars are shoehorned into tiny spaces...
     他们的车硬被塞进了狭小的空间。
  2. I was shoehorning myself into my skin-tight ball gown.
     我正拼命把自己塞进我的紧身晚礼服里。

英英释义

noun

• a device used for easing the foot into a shoe

verb

• fit for a specific purpose even when not well suited

双语例句

• Their cars are shoehorned into tiny spaces
  他们的车硬被塞进了狭小的空间。
• Team members attempt to shoehorn their old process into the new tool.
  团队成员试图将他们原来旧的开发过程强塞进这种新工具中。
• Following the Principle of structured information you decide not to shoehorn the portion measurement and units into a single attribute, but instead of using an element, you opt for
  按照结构化信息原则，您决定不把菜量和度量单位放在一个属性中，而是使用一个元素，于是选择以下格式
• At first, we tried to shoehorn these fragments into the prevailing view about the age of the rocks& animals this size must be peculiar dinosaurs or other odd Mesozoic beasts.
  由于过去对于这些岩层的年代已有定见，刚开始我们试著把这些碎片硬套进去，认为这种体型的动物必定是很特别的恐龙，要不就是其他古怪的中生代兽类。
• I was shoehorning myself into my skin-tight ball gown.
  我正拼命把自己塞进我的紧身晚礼服里。
• Be careful not to shoehorn every design problem into an existing pattern, though.
  不过请注意，不要对所有设计问题都勉强套用现有模式。
• This doesn't mean, however, that whenever you want to have something in bold or italics you should shoehorn it into these two tags.
  但这并不意味着只要您想使某些内容变成粗体或斜体，就应该将它们硬塞进这两个标记中。
• Nowadays, the common practice is to prepare stories about famous people, adorned with beautiful sentences, and then find a way to shoehorn them into the essay, irrespective of the actual topic.
  现在最常见的做法就是考前准备一些名人轶事，配上优美语句，不管实际命题是什么，想方设法把这些句子塞进文章中就好。
• Just like in the case of UML explained above, this approach forces you to shoehorn clear domain specific concepts into prebuilt abstractions.
  正如前面阐释的UML的例子一样，这种方法会强迫你将清晰的领域特定概念硬塞进预先构建的抽象中。
• Can I borrow some vegetable oil and a shoehorn?
  能借给我点植物油和鞋拔子吗？