shoehorn

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英语

Shoehorn made of horn
用兽角做的鞋拔

A metal shoehorn.
一片金属鞋拔

Shoehorn in use
使用中的鞋拔

This racing car has a 5.1 litre V8 aero-engine shoehorned into its lightweight cyclecar frame
这辆轻量小三轮赛车的框架里，塞进了一个5.1升的V8航空发动机

Tate's Avenue bridge, Belfast. The engineer had a hard job "shoehorning" the new footbridge into an existing street.
贝尔法斯特的泰特大街桥。为了将新建的人行桥塞进既存的街道中，工程师花了一番功夫。

其他写法

• (动词) shoe-horn

词源

shoe +‎ horn

发音

• (英国) 国际音标^(帮助): /ˈʃuːˌhɔː(ɹ)n/
• (美国) 国际音标^(帮助): /ˈʃuːˌhɔɹn/

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名词

shoehorn (复数 shoehorns)

1. 鞋拔
2. (贬义) 促成事务达成的工具、手段
   • 1935, Don Herold, Going to the Movies, Life Magazine January 1935.:

     I was about sixty feet ahead of this film in many spots, which speaks rather poorly for it. And I resented the heartthrobs which were planted in my bosom with a shoehorn via the "little child" process.

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3. (弃用) 诱因
   • 1652, Richard Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy:

     Now you cannot but observe, that most of our fine young Ladies readily fall in with the Direction of the Graver sort, to retain in their Service, by some small Encouragement, as great a Number as they can of supernumerary and insignificant Fellows, which they use like Whiflers, and commonly call Shoeing-Horns. These are never designed to know the length of the Foot, but only when a good Offer comes to whet and spur him up to the Point. Nay 'tis the Opinion of that grave Lady, Madam Matchwell, that it's absolutely convenient for every prudent Family to have several of these Implements about the House, to clap on as occasion serves, and that every Spark ought to produce a Certificate of his being a Shoeing-Horn, before he be admitted as a Shoe. A certain Lady, whom I could name, if it was necessary, has at present more Shoeing-Horns of all Sizes, Countries, and Colours, in her Service, than ever she had new Shoes in her Life.

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近义词

• shoeing-horn
• slipper spoon

动词

shoehorn (第三人称单数简单现在时 shoehorns，现在分词 shoehorning，一般过去时及过去分词 shoehorned)

1. (字面意思) 使用鞋拔
2. (及物，比喻义) 把……（强行）塞进，插入，挤入

   I shoehorned his dozen burgeoning bags into the backseat of my tiny car, and off we went.

   我把他那一堆胀鼓鼓的行李塞进我小车的后座，然后我们就出发了。

   His staff want to shoehorn an extra stop into his already packed campaigning schedule.

   他的工作人员想在已经排得满满的行程表中再多塞进一站。

   • 2012, The Economist, Oct 13th 2012 issue, Italian politics: Who will be Italy’s next prime minister?

     A member of Mr Monti’s government admitted that, barring a hung parliament, it was impossible for the moment to see how Mr Monti could be shoehorned into politics after next spring.

3. (及物，比喻义) 强行将某事与另一（不相干的）事物相关联（尤其在其为谬误时）

   People claiming to be psychic may shoehorn an event into fulfillment of some vague past prediction.

   声称自己是灵媒的人，可能会强行把某事与其过去作出的模糊预测相关联。

   • 2015年4月5日, Robert Todd Carroll, “Shoehorning”, 出自 The Skeptic's Dictionary‎^[1]:

     After the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, fundamentalist Christian evangelists Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson shoehorned the events to their agenda. They claimed that "liberal civil liberties groups, feminists, homosexuals and abortion rights supporters bear partial responsibility...because their actions have turned [my] god's anger against America."

     在2001年9月11日世贸中心和五角大楼遭受恐怖袭击后，基督教原教旨主义福音派人士 Jerry Falwell 和 Pat Robertson 把这件事也提上了自己的议程。他们宣称“自由派公民团体、女性主义者、同性恋和堕胎权利支持者应当承担部分责任……因为他们的行动引起[我的]上帝对美国产生了愤怒。”