shoehorning

英 [ˈʃuːhɔːnɪŋ]

美 [ˈʃuːhɔːrnɪŋ]

v.  把…硬塞进
shoehorn的现在分词

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。

双语例句

• Instead of the high-rise tower blocks suggested in the original brief, they opted for a high-density, low-rise scheme, still shoehorning 100 units into every hectare but also giving each house its own street entrance.
  他们没有采用初稿中建议的高层塔楼，而是选择了高密度的低层设计，每公顷仍有100个单元，但每户还有自己的临街入口。
• I don't see much benefit in shoehorning your architecture description into the ( typically very limited) constructs provided by predefined/ standardized languages.
  我并没有看到这种将架构描述硬塞到预定义/标准化语言提供的（通常是非常有限的）结构中，会带来多少好处。
• 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。