0 a smooth, curved piece of plastic or metal that you hold in the back of your shoe when putting it on, to help your foot slide into it -- 鞋拔
1 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。
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.
In addition, the euro will shoehorn in a new era of competition within the single market to the benefit of the customer.
The word is derived from shoehorn, a smooth curved implement, often of plastic or metal, inserted at the heel to help put on a shoe.
Deficits in perceptual organization are particularly difficult to shoehorn into dopamine theories of the disorder.
However, seemingly in order more accurately to represent the many facets of the cloning debate, other issues were "shoehorned" into the story.
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.
The premise is shoehorned into working rather than organically feeling like the right thing to do.
Perhaps they are prepared to shoehorn pre-school children into extremely large classes, which would not provide the sort of education that we all want.
