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小词详解 | wedge
wedge 英 [wedʒ] 美 [wedʒ]
Common to all these cities are buyers from emerging markets, notably China, who have helped to drive a wedge between the price of homes and the local fundamentals of incomes and rental payments.
这些城市都有一个共同点,那就是来自新兴市场的买家,特别是中国买家,拉大了房价和收入与租金支出这两个当地市场基本面之间的差距。
——《经济学人》I’ll take a poached shrimp, a celery stick, a wedge of lemon and a big, frilly fennel frond.
我会加一个水煮虾,一根芹菜杆,一个柠檬角,一个多褶皱的大茴香叶。
——《纽约时报》
[动词] 强行进入狭窄的空间
楔子是一种简单机械工具,由两个斜面组成,用来将物件分开,常由木头、金属、橡胶等制作而来。比如:
那个著名建筑师用锤子把楔子砸入石缝里。
The eminent architect hammered the wedge into the crack in the stone.在门底下塞一个楔子让门敞开着,我们好往里面搬微型人像画框的箱子。
Push a wedge under the door to keep it open while we're carrying the boxes of portrait miniature frames in.
玛丽姨妈把一大角的蛋糕放在我盘子里。
Auntie Mary put a huge wedge of cake on my plate.
我开始觉得威廉在挑拨我们之间的关系。他对我们之间的友谊打心眼儿讨厌。
I started to feel William was driving a wedge between us. He has a visceral dislike of our friendship.指桑骂槐可能还只是个开始——不久他可能就要开始散布恶意的谣言了。
Making oblique accusations could be the thin end of the wedge - soon he might start to peddle vicious gossip.
找个什么东西楔住这个紧闭的窗户,让它开着。
Find something to wedge the fast window open with.我正站着等公共汽车,夹在两位上了年纪的女士和她们的豪华购物袋中间,动弹不得。
I was standing waiting for a bus, wedged between two old ladies and their lavish bags of shopping.
This led her to believe that neglect was creeping in, and so another small wedge was entered.
这使得她认为自己渐渐受到冷落,因此他们之间又出现了一道小裂痕。
squeeze: manage to force into or through a narrow or restricted space cram: force (people or things) into a place or container that is or appears to be too small to contain them jam: squeeze or pack tightly into a specified space