white elephant

英音[ ˌwaɪt ˈelɪfənt ] 美音[ ˌwaɪt ˈelɪfənt ]
白象
常用释义
白象:亚洲一种浅色的大象,有时在印度、斯里兰卡、泰国和缅甸受到崇敬;
负担沉重的财产,无用的东西

扩展信息

白象
白象White Elephant):1个生鸡蛋白、20mL甜味美思酒、30mL金酒。摇和法,滤入鸡尾酒杯中。
无用而累赘的东西
十字路口 - 彬临城下 - 网易博客 ... see the elephant 大开眼界 white elephant 沉重的负担,无用而累赘的东西 talk horse 吹牛 ...
昂贵又无用之物
英语中颜色代表不同的含义,如……_百度知道 ... white-livered 怯懦的 white elephant 昂贵又无用之物 black in the face 脸色铁 …
无用的东西
与动物相关的成语-考试-生物谷 ... top dog 头领 white elephant 无用的东西 loose fish 放荡不羁者 ...
累赘物
特色英语词汇1 ... 13. hold the blue pencil 有权校订 14. white elephant 累赘物 15. see red 发怒 ...
昂贵而无用的东西
七年级上册英语词汇积累_百度文库 ... a yellow dog 卑鄙小人 White elephant 昂贵而无用的东西 Black and blue 遍体鳞伤 ...
大白象
这家名叫“大白象WHITE ELEPHANT)”的泰国餐馆面积不大,顶多约能容约不到三十人就餐,但经营得红红火火,店内的装 …
大而无用的东西
英语中关于颜色的谚语_百度知道 ... a black eye 被打青的眼睛 white elephant 大而无用的东西 green hand 新手 ...

例句

The foreign aid to the country was believed to be nothing but a white elephant.

那个国家得到的外援不但无益反而成了沉重的负担。

Him a white lie, which made him white with fury, but when he realized his project is a white elephant, his face turned as white as a sheet.

我向他撒了一个善意的谎言,却引来他的勃然大怒。但当他发现自己的工程毫无价值。

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。

His birth was foretold by a spirit (a white elephant rather than the angel Gabriel) who then entered his mother's womb!

他的出生被描述为圣灵(是一头白象而不是加百利天使)进入了她母亲的子宫。

你妈妈给我们的大柜子只不过是个废物。

被海军部视为“白象”(只烧钱没用处的东西——译者),庄严号在战争结束后不久就解体了。

If you are invited to a white-elephant party be sure to find a ridiculous and funny present to bring with you to the party.

我应该带什么?如果你去参加一个“白象聚会”,千万记得随身带着七七八八的乐死人的礼物去参加聚会。

城里刚完工的娱乐中心花了一千万元建造,但似乎没那个价值。

This month the government said it might keep a white-elephant dam project that it had long promised to scrap.

本月,政府称,也许会保留一个一直承诺要废除的毫无意义的水坝项目。

天使小雕像使我想起了我们每年都会玩的“白象礼物交换游戏”;

Some rebuilding can be financed by redirecting spending from useless white-elephant projects to the higher priority of remaking Tohoku.

把建设无用工程的投资转移到更重要的名古屋重建上来,一些重建费用可以通过这种方式进行融资。

When he bought a car he didn't know it was going to be such a white elephant.

当他买一部车子时没想到以后要花如此一大把钞票。

国王用白象去惩治任何一个使他不快的大臣。

The kings used a white elephant to punish any of his men who displeased him.

国王曾经一个大而无用的东西惩罚使他生气的任何他的人。

They gave us a number of very large pictures as a wedding present; but as we lived in a very small flat the present was a white elephant.

他们送给我们大量的大幅图片作为结婚礼物,这份礼物倒成了累赘的赠品。

任何有理智的人都无法解释我们的税收和法律体制中那个累赘低效的巨大难题。

A "white elephant" is something which will cost you money, perhaps an increasing amount of money over time, and in the end, have no value.

“白象”指花钱不少、用处不大的废物,也许留用的时间越长,花的钱越多,最终也无济于事;

买这样大而无用的东西完全是浪费金钱。

Each holiday for me seemed like a white elephant, a thing which can't make people excited.

每一个节日对于我来说如同鸡肘,令人提不起劲。

That would be a white elephant to me.

那东西对我来说又贵又没用。

We don't want the house, which has been a white elephant.

我们不要这房子。房子已经成为累赘。

The lamp is a real white elephant; It does not work.

那盏灯真是个累赘,它点不着。(非“白色的大象、工作”)

The new printer's a white elephant. It's very complicated to use, so everyone still prints with the old one.

新的打字机是个白象。它的使用方法十分复杂。因而所有的人都在使用以前的。

The family sits alfresco in front of a pub whose name, the White Elephant, may be intended to convey a grim irony.

这家人坐在酒馆前面的露天座位上,酒馆的名字叫“白象”,可能想要表达一种晦暗的讥讽之意。

The new opera house will be a white elephant: it is too small for proper opera productions, and no large opera company will want to use it.

这座新剧场将是无用而赘的东西:演出大型歌剧,它太小了,所以没有一家歌剧团愿意用它。

迈克不想要那房子,它一向是个累赘。

我决不买汽车,因为它对我只会是一个累赘。

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。

他新雇来的女佣人懒得出奇,饭量倒很大,真是一个无用而又累赘东西。

Not only that, due to clumsy government planning, when the Sealink is finished it will be in danger of becoming a white elephant.

不仅如此,由于政府笨拙的规划,当Sealink大桥完工后,可能会成为白象那样的累赘之物。

同义词

[脊椎]白象,灰色象(在印度、东南亚被视为神圣之物);无价值的东西