pigeonholes

pigeonholes

美 [?p?d??n?ho?l] 　英 [?p?d?(?)n?h??l]

• n.鴿籠的出入孔；鴿籠的區劃；小房間；(寫字臺上的)鴿籠式文件架
• v.把(文件等)擱入分類架；把(文件等)整理起來保存；把…留在記憶中
• 網絡信函分揀臺格架；死胡同；信報箱格口

詞形變化

復數：pigeonholes  現在分詞：pigeonholing  過去式：pigeonholed  

同義詞

英漢解釋

n.	1. 鴿籠的出入孔;鴿籠的區劃;小房間;(寫字臺上的)鴿籠式文件架,分類架,分信箱
v.	1. 把(文件等)擱入分類架;把(文件等)整理起來保存;把...留在記憶中;擱置,擱下來不管

英英解釋

n.	1. one of the sections of an open structure in a desk or on a wall where you can put papers, letters, messages, etc. 2. one of the small holes in a structure for pigeons to live in
v.	1. to decide that someone or something belongs to a particular type or group, especially without knowing much about them

例句

Legal problems do not always fit neatly into the pigeonholes that legal theorists have created.

法律問題不可能總是與法理學家所創立的分類完全相符。

Amazingly, all the results come out of a basic insight from stuffing pigeons into pigeonholes.

讓人感覺不可思議的是，結果都產生于對將鴿子塞入鴿子洞現象的基本理解。

As for Fernando, people like to put you in pigeonholes, to categorise you, to compare you.

至于費爾南多，人們總是喜歡將你歸檔，分類，作比較。

in contrast , the computer memory is like a cell of pigeonholes , with no thinking capacity and no connections elsewhere.

相比來說，電腦的記憶就像是文件夾中的一個盒子，沒有思考的能力，也沒有其他的聯系。

EXAMPLE 2: My grandfather's old desk had numerous pigeonholes in which he could keep letters and bills.

在我祖父的舊桌上有很多文件格子，用來放信件和賬單。

Consider again the problem of stuffing pigeons into pigeonholes and consider the average.

重新設想將鴿子裝入鴿子洞，再設想一下平均值。

Imagine that 3 pigeons need to be placed into 2 pigeonholes.

設想要將3只鴿子裝進2個鴿子洞里。

Behind every two or three windows, a couple go to bed every night like pigeons returning to their pigeonholes;

在兩三個窗戶的后邊就有一對夫妻，每天晚上像鴿子那樣地回到他們的鴿籠里去睡覺；