white elephant
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- n.昂贵而无用之物；大而无用的东西；贵而无用的东西；【动】白象
- 网络无用而累赘的东西；昂贵又无用之物；累赘物
词形变化
复数：white elephants
英汉双解
1. | 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 |
| The new office block has become an expensive white elephant. 这座新办公大楼成了昂贵的摆设。 |
英汉解释
英英解释
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”；
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。
The king used a white elephant to punish any of his officials who displeased him.
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。
How can any rational individual explain that white elephant conundrum in the middle of our tax system and, indeed, our entire legal system?
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；
Buying such a white elephant is simply wasting money.
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。
That standard lamp is a real white elephant-it doesn't work and it doesn't go with the rest of the furniture.
那台落地台灯真是个累赘--它不好使，而且跟别的家具不相配。
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。
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。
I'll never buy a car, for it's only a white elephant to me.
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。
His newly employed servant woman was extremely lazy and ate a lot, no more than a white elephant.
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。
That standard lamp is a real white elephant-it doesn't work and it doesn't go with the rest of the furniture.
那台落地台灯真是个累赘--它不好使，而且跟别的家具不相配。
Red elephant fire, powder elephant rosy cloud, white elephant snow.
红的像火，粉的像霞，白的像雪。
Who would have thought to meet a white elephant.
谁会想到会遇到一头白象啊！
SHANGHAI WHITE ELEPHANT SWAN BATTERY CO. , LTD.
上海白象天鹅电池有限公司。
I told her that her new BMW is a white elephant.
我告诉过她，她的那辆新宝马是一个沉重的负担。在汉语中。
What is one's white elephant is someone else's pearl beyond price.
对于某些人空而无用的东西，也许对于他人是无价之宝。
I saw an unusual white elephant.
我看到一只罕见的白象。
The small country's space program has become a white elephant that is draining the national coffers .
那个小国的太空计画已经成为一头白象，逐渐掏空国库。
The fountain is a white elephant.
这个喷水池真是废物。
The car is a white elephant for me. I can't drive it.
这辆小汽车对我来说是无用之物。我不会开它。
