elephantine

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˌel.ɪˈfæn.taɪn]
• 美式音标 [ˌel.əˈfæn.taɪn]
• 国际音标 [,eli'fæntain, -tin]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• adj. 似象的；巨大的；粗笨的，笨拙的

词根记忆

• 来自elephant(n.大象)

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• India’s current rulers, the mahouts to an elephantine state, seem at least to understand this.
  印度的决策者，如同有大象的地区的管象人一样，至少应该明白这一点。
• Lastly, the commission should bolster its line on Lloyds Group, the elephantine product of a state-sponsored merger during the crisis.
  最近，委员会站在了劳埃德集团一边，该公司在经济危机期间享受政府大额自助，并接受合并。
• The rare elephantine visitation undoubtedly reflected an "improvement in the country's foreign relations".
  毫无疑问，稀有大象造访这一事件很好诠释了““国家的外交关系正在改善”的说法。

权威例句

• Like gill slits, which derive ultimately from mammals' fishy ancestors, they betray a watery phase in elephantine evolution.
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• In lower Egypt there is the island of Yeb or Elephantine (opposite Syene) which was an important administrative and military center.
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• This fits my thesis that the elephantine Saudi reservoirs are long in the tooth and could peak in a few years.
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词组短语

短语

• elephantine task 累赘的任务
• elephantine humour 拙劣的幽默
• elephantine humor 笨拙的幽默
• Elephantine Island 大象岛;象岛;艾勒芬蒂尼岛
• Elephantine Papyri 象岛纸莎草纸文献

英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• very large

柯林斯英英字典

• If you describe something as elephantine, you mean that you think it is large and clumsy.