英语释义

• albinic Indian elephant; rare and sometimes venerated in east Asia

• a valuable possession whose upkeep is excessively expensive

片语

white e elephant白象

white a elephant英语翻译

fig打扮；使马跑快

vanity虚荣心；空虚；浮华；无价值的东西

The White Elephant白象

white elephant legs大白腿

White Elephant Hotel白象大酒店

White Elephant Records出版者

White Elephant Safari Lodge白象旅行旅馆

White-Elephant-Demon白象精

英汉例句

• burma’s offical new light of myanmar newspaper on september 25 reported that a rare white elephant was captured in western rakhine state, burma.

  缅甸官方报纸《缅甸新光报》9月25日报道，缅甸西部若开邦孟都镇区捕获了一只罕见的白象。

• are you scratching your head right now? i know i sure was. until i saw the white elephant sitting in the room…

  你现在是不是百思不得其解？我知道你的答案一定是”是的“。直到我看到白色的大象坐在房间里......

• host a white elephant exchange in which friends and family bring unwanted gifts and all take turns pulling a number out of a hat to pick the next bizarre present.

  举办一场无用的礼物交换活动。 突施妙计让你的朋友或家人把他们不中意的礼物换成另一件不寻常的。

• a motor car would be a white elephant to me.

  对我来说汽车可能是个累赘。

• its sister ship the kuznetsov survived, but by the time the soviet union ceased to exist, the varyag was a white elephant marooned off a port in the black sea.

  它的姐妹舰库兹涅佐夫仍在服役，不过当前苏联分崩离析之时，瓦良格号这一白色的庞然大物却漂泊在黑海一港口之外。

• the exact nature of the link between a wandering white elephant and hillary clinton is a burmese mystery too deep to delve here.

  在缅甸人那种根深蒂固的神秘思想观念看来，将一头漫游的白象与希拉里·克林顿访问联系起来确实是再自然不过的事了。

• it was the custom of the monarch to bestow the highest praise by giving a royal white elephant to a courtier5) as a mark of especial favour.

  暹罗的王室有个习俗，那就是国王会把王室的白象赠予朝臣作为最高的奖赏，而这成为了朝臣受宠的标志。

• the new office block has become an expensive white elephant .

  这座新办公大楼成了昂贵的摆设。

• there is a white elephant in our national flag.

  我们的国旗白色的大象。

• this radio is really a white elephant to me.

  这台收音机对我来说真是个累赘。

• mike doesn「t want the house , it always has been a white elephant .

  迈克不想要那房子，它一向是个累赘。

• so, they moved the white elephant to the basement and opened the verslunin herdubreid design shop in their firm」s storefront.

  因此，他们把这个包袱甩到地下室，在原来的店面里开设了威尔斯鲁宁·赫尔杜布雷德设计商店。

• in thailand and india, a white elephant is regarded as a sacred animal.

  在泰国和印度，白象被视为神圣的动物。

• the paper said that the white elephant is estimated to be 18 years old with the height of 2.16 meters and is the fifth white elephant captured since 2001.

  报纸称这只白象身高2.16米，年龄估计为18岁。这是缅甸近10年以来发现的第5头白象。

• but when the latest investment boom unwinds, there are concerns that chinese cities will be littered with white elephant industrial projects that will stand empty for years.

  但要是这几年的投资热停下来，有人担心中国各地将会斥着许多无人使用的累赘建筑。