a white elephant

英汉解释

英英解释

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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。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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