This demand is only the thin end of the wedge—soon the will want more and more.

这一要求还是一个开始—他们很快就会提出越来越多的要求。

Emancipatory politics inserts the thin end of the wedge of the futureinto the heart of the present.

解放政治把未来的尖利的末端楔进了现实的心脏中。

Unions regard the government's intention to ban overtime as the thin end of the wedge .

工会认为政府禁止加班的用意是老鼠拉木，大头在后边。

Thereal reason that Japan is so hell-bent on continuing its whaling isbecause it fears that a ban would be the thin end of the wedge.

日本如此决意继续进行捕鲸活动的真实原因是，它害怕一纸禁令将是冰山一角。

It's the thin end of the wedge - perhaps in your past someone left saying it was temporary, but didn't come back.

这是分手的前奏-也许曾经有过某个人说离开是暂时但是却没有回来。