edgeways是什么意思？

edgeways

英[ˈedʒweɪz] 美[ˈedʒweɪz]

• adv. 以刃向外，从旁边，沿边；

例句

• He talks so much that no one else can get a word in edgeways. 他讲得太多了,别人一句话也插不上嘴.
• You'll only get the desk through the door if you turn it edgeways. 你要把书桌侧着才能搬过这道门。
• He spent all the time talking and they could not get a word in edgeways. 他一直说个不停，他们都插不上嘴。

词组

• get a word in edgeways
  [usu. with negative]contribute to a conversation with difficulty because the other speaker talks almost without pause （在别人谈话时艰难地）插嘴

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• PHRASE
  插不上嘴
  If you say that you cannot get a word in edgeways, you are complaining that you do not have the opportunity to speak because someone else is talking so much.
  例句
  He spent all the time talking and they could not get a word in edgeways. 他一直说个不停，他们都插不上嘴。

英英词典释义

• Adverb
  1. as if by an edge; barely;
  "I could not get a word in edgewise"
  2. with the edge forward or on, by, or toward the edge;
  "he sawed the board edgeways""held it edgewise"