shoehorning

I was shoehorning myself into my skin-tight ball gown.

我正拼命把自己塞进我的紧身晚礼服里。

I don't see much benefit in shoehorning your architecture description into the ( typically very limited) constructs provided by predefined/ standardized languages.

我并没有看到这种将架构描述硬塞到预定义/标准化语言提供的（通常是非常有限的）结构中，会带来多少好处。

what's so scary about it? i dunno, shoehorning a core duo processor into a sony vaio ux17, one of the smallest netbooks available.

在现存最小笔记本之一的索尼VaioUX17中安装一个双核处理器，这究竟可怕到什么程度呢？

shoehorning such firms into antiquated privacy frameworks will not benefit either them or their users.

强行要求这些企业符合过时的隐私体制将既不利于公司也损害其用户的利益。

Instead of the high-rise tower blocks suggested in the original brief, they opted for a high-density, low-rise scheme, still shoehorning 100 units into every hectare but also giving each house its own street entrance.

他们没有采用初稿中建议的高层塔楼，而是选择了高密度的低层设计，每公顷仍有100个单元，但每户还有自己的临街入口。