white elephant

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˌwaɪt ˈel.ɪ.fənt]
• 美式音标 [ˌwaɪt ˈel.ɪ.fənt]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• 白象，灰色象（在印度、东南亚被视为神圣之物）；无价值的东西

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• But it will be an uphill task. Indonesians have come to cherish their local freedoms, with good cause—even if it means a white-elephant stadium or three.
  但这将是一项步履维艰的工程。印尼人现在意识到并开始珍惜自己的地方自主权，这是有着长久渊源的。他们不会放弃这一道路，即使代价是一个“绣花枕头”体育场或更多个。

权威例句

• Indonesians have come to cherish their local freedoms, with good cause—even if it means a white-elephant stadium or three.
  ECONOMIST: Indonesia
• Dick Durbin assure us, not because they want to use federal money to indemnify their home state for a white-elephant prison Illinois taxpayers should never have built, but because Guantanamo Bay simply must be closed.
  CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Gitmo does not cause terrorism
• He began to write a novel, set during Brazil's hosting of the World Cup in 2014, in which public money was yet again disappearing into private pockets, and white-elephant stadiums were rising across the land.
  ECONOMIST: Sócrates

词组短语

短语

• white e elephant 白象;贵;沉重的包袱;大而无用的东西
• white a elephant 英语翻译
• White -Elephant-Demon 白象精
• white elephant legs 大白腿
• White Elephant Records 出版者

英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• something that has cost a lot of money but has no useful purpose

柯林斯英英字典

• If you describe something as a white elephant, you mean that it is a waste of money because it is completely useless.

专业释义

生物学

• 大白象
• 白象”