white elephant

单词white elephant

基本解释

n.: 累赘；大而无用的东西；贵而无用的东西；【动】白象

权威解释

• 昂贵而无用之物:

  a thing that is useless and no longer needed, although it may have cost a lot of money

英汉解释

• 【动】白象

• 累赘;大而无用的东西;贵而无用的东西

词性分析

• 复数：white elephants

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。

• That enormous wardrobe your mother gave us has been nothing but a white elephant.

  你妈妈给我们的大柜子只不过是个废物。

• Regarded as a "white elephant" by the Admiralty, Magnificent was broken up for scrap shortly after the War ended.

  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。

• The town"s new recreation center, recently completed at a cost of ten million dollars, seems likely to prove a white elephant.

  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。

• The angel figurine reminded me of the white elephant gift exchange game that we play every year.

  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”；