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》

• 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