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pig.eon.holeH5pIdV7En7hEJl, $-hoJln [C]one of a set of small boxes, open at the front, in which letters and messages are left for different people, esp. in an office or hotel分类架Leave the report in my pigeonhole when you've read it.你读完把报告放在我的分类架里。A letter for Mr Redding? Look in the pigeonhole for 'R'.雷丁先生的一封信? 找以R打头的信件格。Joe wants me to check his pigeonhole in the department on my way home (= to see if there's anything in it).乔要我在回家的路上去系里看看他的信箱。(usually disapproving) If you put someone or something in a pigeonhole or put people or things in pigeonholes you make a (too) quick, simple or general decision about what they are like, what they need etc.草草把…归类You shouldn't try to put me in a neat pigeonhole -- see me as an individual.你不应该把我简单地归于哪一类，把我当作一个个体看待。French manufacturers used to put their cars in tight social pigeonholes -- Renaults, for example, were working-class cars.法国制造商过去常把他们的车按严格的社会阶层分类，比如雷诺尔兹牌是工人们开的车。
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