shoehorn

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英語

Shoehorn made of horn
用獸角做的鞋拔

A metal shoehorn.
一片金屬鞋拔

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
這輛輕量小三輪賽車的框架裡，塞進了一個5.1升的V8航空發動機

Tate's Avenue bridge, Belfast. The engineer had a hard job "shoehorning" the new footbridge into an existing street.
貝爾法斯特的泰特大街橋。為了將新建的人行橋塞進既存的街道中，工程師花了一番功夫。

其他寫法

• (動詞) shoe-horn

詞源

shoe +‎ horn

發音

• (英國) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈʃuːˌhɔː(ɹ)n/
• (美國) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈʃuːˌhɔɹn/

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名詞

shoehorn (複數 shoehorns)

1. 鞋拔
2. (貶義) 促成事務達成的工具、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. (棄用) 誘因
   • 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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近義詞

• shoeing-horn
• slipper spoon

動詞

shoehorn (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 shoehorns，現在分詞 shoehorning，一般過去時及過去分詞 shoehorned)

1. (字面意思) 使用鞋拔
2. (及物，比喻義) 把……（強行）塞進，插入，擠入

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

   我把他那一堆脹鼓鼓的行李塞進我小車的後座，然後我們就出發了。

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

   他的工作人員想在已經排得滿滿的行程表中再多塞進一站。

   • 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，比喻義) 強行將某事與另一（不相干的）事物相關聯（尤其在其為謬誤時）

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

   聲稱自己是靈媒的人，可能會強行把某事與其過去作出的模糊預測相關聯。

   • 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日世貿中心和五角大樓遭受恐怖襲擊後，基督教原教旨主義福音派人士 Jerry Falwell 和 Pat Robertson 把這件事也提上了自己的議程。他們宣稱「自由派公民團體、女性主義者、同性戀和墮胎權利支持者應當承擔部分責任……因為他們的行動引起[我的]上帝對美國產生了憤怒。」