pigeonhole 详细解释

pigeonhole

['pidʒin.həul]

n.鸽舍,文件架上的小间隔
v.分类,归档

词形变化

动词过去式: pigeonholed | 动词过去分词: pigeonholed | 动词现在分词: pigeonholing | 动词第三人称单数: pigeonholes |

词义辨析

同义参见:

generalize  coordinate  compartment  

英英释义

名词 pigeonhole:

a specific (often simplistic) category

a small compartment

同义词:cubbyhole

动词 pigeonhole:

place into a small compartment

treat or classify according to a mental stereotype

同义词:stereotype, stamp

补充

pigeonholepigeonhole英:[ˈpidʒinhəul] 美:[ˈpɪdʒənˌhol]n.1.鸽巢,分类架,文件架vt.1.分类,归档

例句

1. There was a message waiting for me in the hotel pigeonhole.酒店的信件架上有给我的留言。 2. He felt they had pigeonholed him.他感到他们硬把自己划入了某一类人。 3. He pigeonholes the request for a new park.他把开辟新公园的请求搁置起来。 4. She likes to perform different types of music because she doesn't want to be pigeonholed.她喜欢演奏不同风格的乐曲,因为她不希望被认为仅会演奏某一类的乐曲。 5. She doesn't want to be pigeonholed as a jazz musician.她不想被硬归为爵士乐手。 6. He's a talented actor who doesn't want to be put in a pigeonhole. [=doesn't want to be pigeonholed]他是个才华横溢的演员,不想被认为仅有一技之长。