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wedge n.楔子；楔形物vt.楔住；嵌；挤进 (1) 在门底下塞一块楔子，让门保持开着。(2) 进攻者形成了一个楔子，突破了敌军的阵线(3) 他中饭吃一根香蕉和一块楔形的奶酪。(4) 请在橱底楔入楔子以防它倾斜。(5) 那盒无法塞进那么小的地方去。(6) 她再也无法把别的东西塞进箱子里去了。(7) 我被两个肥胖的女人紧紧地挤在中间，以致于要站起来下公共汽车都很难。 Wedge means "triangle-shaped." Pieces of pie are wedges. So are tortilla chips. In some parts of the country, a sandwich on a long roll is called a wedge, or a wedgie, while in other places, it's a hoagie or sub. Just about everywhere, the wedge you get in the schoolyard means your underwear are pulled up between your butt cheeks, which is consistent with the verb form of wedge: to squeeze into a tight space.

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英 [wedʒ] 美 [wedʒ] (1) Put a wedge under the door so that it will stay open.(2) The attackers formed a wedge and plowed through the enemy line.(3) He had a banana and a wedge of cheese for lunch.(4) Please wedge this cabinet to keep it from tipping.(5) The box won't wedge into such a narrow space.(6) She could not wedge another item into the suitcase .(7) I was so tightly wedged between two fat women that it was difficult for me to get up and leave the bus. A wedge is a block of wood that keeps a door propped open, or a problem that pulls people apart, like the jealousy that drove a wedge between two friends. 1[VERB 动词]把…楔住；把…楔牢 If you wedge something, you force it to remain in a particular position by holding it there tightly or by fixing something next to it to prevent it from moving.   [V n]  [V n adj]I shut the shed door and wedged it with a log of wood...我关上小屋的门，并用一根木棍将门楔住。We slammed the gate after them, wedging it shut with planks.他们出去后，我们在后面砰地把大门关上，并用板条抵死。2[VERB 动词]将…塞入；将…插入；将…挤入 If you wedge something somewhere, you fit it there tightly.   [V n prep]  [V-ed]Wedge the plug into the hole...将塞子塞进洞口。The hotel's wedged right between the two airports.那家宾馆正好处于两个机场中间。3[N-COUNT 可数名词]（用来固定门的）楔子，三角木 A wedge is an object with one pointed edge and one thick edge, which you put under a door to keep it firmly in position. 4[N-COUNT 可数名词](用于劈开木头等的金属)楔子 A wedge is a piece of metal with a pointed edge which is used for splitting a material such as stone or wood, by being hammered into a crack in the material. 5[N-COUNT 可数名词](水果、奶酪等)楔形物 A wedge of something such as fruit or cheese is a piece of it that has a thick triangular shape.   [usu N of n]6[PHRASE 短语]破坏…之间的关系；挑拨离间 If someone drives a wedge between two people who are close, they cause ill feelings between them in order to weaken their relationship.   [V inflects]I started to feel Toby was driving a wedge between us.我开始觉得托比在挑拨我们之间的关系。7[PHRASE 短语]（坏事的）端倪，冰山一角；可能引起更糟糕情况的小事 If you say that something is the thin end of the wedge, you mean that it appears to be unimportant at the moment, but that it is the beginning of a bigger, more harmful development.   [v-link PHR]  [BRIT 英]I think it's the thin end of the wedge when you have armed police permanently on patrol round a city.我觉得让武装警察永久性地在城市里巡逻是老鼠拉木锨，大头在后边。

英语单词	wedge
英美音标	英 [wedʒ] 美 [wedʒ]
中文释义	n.楔子；楔形物 vt.楔住；嵌；挤进
英语例句	(1) Put a wedge under the door so that it will stay open. (2) The attackers formed a wedge and plowed through the enemy line. (3) He had a banana and a wedge of cheese for lunch. (4) Please wedge this cabinet to keep it from tipping. (5) The box won't wedge into such a narrow space. (6) She could not wedge another item into the suitcase . (7) I was so tightly wedged between two fat women that it was difficult for me to get up and leave the bus.
中文例句	(1) 在门底下塞一块楔子，让门保持开着。 (2) 进攻者形成了一个楔子，突破了敌军的阵线 (3) 他中饭吃一根香蕉和一块楔形的奶酪。 (4) 请在橱底楔入楔子以防它倾斜。 (5) 那盒无法塞进那么小的地方去。 (6) 她再也无法把别的东西塞进箱子里去了。 (7) 我被两个肥胖的女人紧紧地挤在中间，以致于要站起来下公共汽车都很难。
vocabulary简明	A wedge is a block of wood that keeps a door propped open, or a problem that pulls people apart, like the jealousy that drove a wedge between two friends.
vocabulary扩展	Wedge means "triangle-shaped." Pieces of pie are wedges. So are tortilla chips. In some parts of the country, a sandwich on a long roll is called a wedge, or a wedgie, while in other places, it's a hoagie or sub. Just about everywhere, the wedge you get in the schoolyard means your underwear are pulled up between your butt cheeks, which is consistent with the verb form of wedge: to squeeze into a tight space.
柯林斯解释	1 [VERB 动词]把…楔住；把…楔牢 If you wedge something, you force it to remain in a particular position by holding it there tightly or by fixing something next to it to prevent it from moving. [V n] [V n adj] I shut the shed door and wedged it with a log of wood... 我关上小屋的门，并用一根木棍将门楔住。 We slammed the gate after them, wedging it shut with planks. 他们出去后，我们在后面砰地把大门关上，并用板条抵死。 2 [VERB 动词]将…塞入；将…插入；将…挤入 If you wedge something somewhere, you fit it there tightly. [V n prep] [V-ed] Wedge the plug into the hole... 将塞子塞进洞口。 The hotel's wedged right between the two airports. 那家宾馆正好处于两个机场中间。 3 [N-COUNT 可数名词]（用来固定门的）楔子，三角木 A wedge is an object with one pointed edge and one thick edge, which you put under a door to keep it firmly in position. 4 [N-COUNT 可数名词](用于劈开木头等的金属)楔子 A wedge is a piece of metal with a pointed edge which is used for splitting a material such as stone or wood, by being hammered into a crack in the material. 5 [N-COUNT 可数名词](水果、奶酪等)楔形物 A wedge of something such as fruit or cheese is a piece of it that has a thick triangular shape. [usu N of n] 6 [PHRASE 短语]破坏…之间的关系；挑拨离间 If someone drives a wedge between two people who are close, they cause ill feelings between them in order to weaken their relationship. [V inflects] I started to feel Toby was driving a wedge between us. 我开始觉得托比在挑拨我们之间的关系。 7 [PHRASE 短语]（坏事的）端倪，冰山一角；可能引起更糟糕情况的小事 If you say that something is the thin end of the wedge, you mean that it appears to be unimportant at the moment, but that it is the beginning of a bigger, more harmful development. [v-link PHR] [BRIT 英] I think it's the thin end of the wedge when you have armed police permanently on patrol round a city. 我觉得让武装警察永久性地在城市里巡逻是老鼠拉木锨，大头在后边。

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