white whale

基本解释

• [脊椎] 白鲸

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• wh-Where is my white whale?
  wh-我的白鲸在哪里？
• They almost find the white whale. Then they almost find the white whale. Then they find it.
  他们几乎找到那只白鲸了。然后他们又几乎找到那只白鲸了。然后他们找到了。
• Mr Assange may be the administration’s great white whale, but last year it netted a smaller fish when it sent an FBI linguist, Shamai Leibowitz, to prison for
  虽说去年美国政府把向部落格传递秘密文件的FBI语言学家沙迈·莱波维兹关押在监狱20个月，可以说捕获了一条小鱼儿，但阿桑奇先生才是美国政府最想捉拿的大白鲸。

原声例句

• The ship's Captain Ahab is seeking to find the great,white whale that destroyed his former ship and bit off his leg.

权威例句

• Coolidge himself winds up unscathed, a sort of gray white whale that has eluded its baleful hunter.
  NEWYORKER: Less Said
• The Wall Street Journal has dubbed the former "Senator Ahab" for his "obsessive" pursuit of this white whale of a story about "politicized" intelligence.
  CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Truly "inappropriate" behavior
• It fixates the party, and the candidates, in much the same way that a certain great white whale obsessed Captain Ahab, dooming him and almost his entire crew.
  FORBES: The Secret to Victory: Feed The Opportunity, Starve The Problem

词组短语

短语

• THE -WHITE-WHALE 大白鲸
• The White Whale 大白鲸
• Or White Whale 或白鲸
• Great white whale 大白鲸;唱片名
• my white whale 我的白鲸

英英字典

柯林斯英英字典

• a small white toothed whale, Delphinapterus leucas, of northern waters: family Monodontidae (Also called beluga)

专业释义

生物学

• 白鲸