white elephant是什么意思

Question

如题所述

Answer 1

white elephant意为白象，累赘物。
也可用于指昂贵又无用之物。
A white elephant一词是来源于印度，由于印度人是很崇拜大象的，对于大象尤其是白象视若神灵，印度规定，白象是不可以宰杀、干活的，拥有白象的人家要好好的养着它，不可以虐待它，直到它死去，所以人们将白象视为一种累赘，这也就是white elephant的由来。
例句：
(1)The pavilion has become a £ 4 million steel and glass white elephant.
这个耗资400万英镑、用钢与玻璃所构筑起的亭子已经成了一个华而不实的摆设。
（2）Where can I dump these white elephants?
这些无用的垃圾我要丢到哪？

Answer 2

white elephant

n.累赘；大而无用的东西；贵而无用的东西；【动】白象

无用而累赘的东西；昂贵又无用之物；累赘物
复数：white elephants

例句

1.SHANGHAI WHITE ELEPHANT SWAN BATTERY CO. , LTD.
上海白象天鹅电池有限公司。

2.Who would have thought to meet a white elephant.
谁会想到会遇到一头白象啊！

3.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。

4.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。

5.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。本回答被提问者和网友采纳

Answer 3

white elephant

白象，灰色象（在印度、东南亚被视为神圣之物）；无价值的东西； 昂贵又无用之物

短语
White-elephant 无用的东西
White-Elephant-Demon 白象精

white elephant
1.N-COUNT If you describe something as a white elephant, you mean that it is a waste of money because it is completely useless. 昂贵却无用的东西表不满

The venture has been widely dismissed as a $264 million white elephant.
普遍认为该2.64亿美元的风险投资华而不实。

It's a seductive view. But it may yet prove to be something of a white elephant.
前景诱人，但是它可能证明在某种程度上仅仅就是一头白象而已。

Answer 4

white elephant
[英][hwait ˈelifənt][美][hwaɪt ˈɛləfənt]
n.白象，累赘物;
复数：white elephants
双语例句：
1.The pavilion has become a £ 4 million steel and glass white elephant.
这个耗资400万英镑、用钢与玻璃所构筑起的亭子已经成了一个华而不实的摆设。
2.Who would have thought to meet a white elephant.
谁会想到会遇到一头白象啊！

Answer 5

white elephant
可数名词
累赘 [麻烦] 的贵重赠品; 大而无用之物
a white elephant sale
不用物品出售
【字源】从前泰国 (旧名暹逻 (Siam) 罕有的白象被视为神圣之物,饲养起来花费很大. 据说有一位国王有意使某臣失势而赠送白象给他,故有此语