wedging
v. 楔( wedge的现在分词 ); 楔形物; (击高尔夫球的)楔形铁头球棒
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.
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。
If you wedge something somewhere, you fit it there tightly.
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。
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.
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.
A wedge of something such as fruit or cheese is a piece of it that has a thick triangular shape.
If someone drives a wedge between two people who are close, they cause ill feelings between them in order to weaken their relationship.
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。
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.
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。
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。
These interior tensions are caused by the wedging action within the neighboring compressively stressed layers.
这些内部的拉应力是由邻近压缩应力层内的劈开作用而引起的.
Wedging actions help affect a tight seal in low differential pressure services.
楔形的作用有助于在低压差应用中产生紧密的密封.
Physical weathering: thermal expansion and contracting, ice wedging, exfoliation, salt crystallization.
物理风化: 热胀冷缩 、 冰楔作用 、 剥离作用和晶体生长.
Aluminium has slowly wedging its way in the metal market.
很久以前,铝是一种珍贵的金属.