shoehorn

noun

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

verb

1. 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。

1. 鞋拔
   A shoehorn is 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.
2. VERB 把…硬塞进
   If you shoehorn something into a 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。

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。
3. 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。
4. 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。
5. 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。
6. Why shoehorn one specified part into the other; the mere presence of popular misunderstanding of the distinction seems a poor reason to me.
   为什么要把一个指定的部分硬塞进另一部分中呢？我认为，对路径和参数的差异的误解是出现这种设计的原因。
7. 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
8. 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。
9. 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。
10. Can I borrow some vegetable oil and a shoehorn?
    能借给我点植物油和鞋拔子吗？
11. 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。

noun

1. a device used for easing the foot into a shoe

verb

1. fit for a specific purpose even when not well suited