white elephant

noun

1. 昂贵而无用之物
   a thing that is useless and no longer needed, although it may have cost a lot of money
   1. The new office block has become an expensive white elephant.
      这座新办公大楼成了昂贵的摆设。

1. N-COUNT 昂贵而无用的东西;华而不实的东西
   If you describe something as a white elephant, you mean that it is a waste of money because it is completely useless.
   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。

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. Above, Buddhist and Hindu deities are showering the two leaders with blessings; a white elephant and a dragon on their sides depict Sino-India cultural symmetry.
   画的上方是佛教和印度教的神，他们给两国领导人送上祝福；白色的大象和两侧的龙显示了中印度文化的对称性。
3. That is a white elephant.
   那是一个无用而累赘的东西。
4. Seeking the Hidden Iceberg& An Interpretation of Hills Like White Elephant from Pragmatic Perspective;
   探寻隐藏的冰山&语用学视角解读《白象似的群山》
5. That super size desk is a white elephant to his room.
   那张他房间里的超大书桌很大而无当。
6. I told 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的时候，他顿时脸色苍白。
7. I'll never buy a car, for it's only a white elephant to me.
   我决不买汽车，因为它对我只会是一个累赘。
8. The car is a white elephant for me.
   这辆小汽车对我来说是无用之物。
9. That would be a white elephant to me.
   那东西对我来说又贵又没用。
10. Did you see that gift she gave me? What should I do with this white elephant?
    你看到她送我的礼物了吗？这种小玩意儿我该怎么处理？
11. The boy showed no interest in music. The grand piano they had bought for him was nothing but a white elephant.
    那个男孩对音乐没有兴趣，他们为他买的大钢琴成了件多余的东西。
12. Buying such a white elephant is simply wasting money.
    买这样大而无用的东西完全是浪费金钱。
13. Jan's factory is an absolute white elephant.
    简的那个工厂成了一个大包袱。
14. In Thailand and India, a white elephant is regarded as a sacred animal.
    在泰国和印度，白象被视为神圣的动物。
15. Some people say that monuments are a white elephant and a waste of money.
    有些人说建造那纪念碑实在是无意义的浪费钱。
16. A motor-car would be a white elephant to him, because he can't drive it.
    摩托车对他一点用都没有，因为他不会驾驶。
17. Now people in the West calk a useless thing "a white elephant".
    而现在西方人则把民用的人成为“白象”。
18. His newly employed woman servant was extremely lazy and ate a lot, no more than a white elephant.
    他新雇来的女佣人懒得出奇，饭量倒很大，真是一个无用而又累赘的东西。
19. Haagen test is that large glass of the "white elephant" problem?
    哈根达斯测试的是，大型玻璃的“白象”问题？
20. Each holiday for me seemed like a white elephant, a thing which can't make people excited.
    每一个节日对于我来说如同鸡肘，令人提不起劲。
21. The angel figurine reminded me of the white elephant gift exchange game that we play every year.
    天使小雕像使我想起了我们每年都会玩的“白象礼物交换游戏”；
22. His collection of stamps came to the hammer yesterday There's a white elephant sale today.
    他的集邮品昨日被拍卖。今天有珍品要廉价拍卖。
23. A car is a white elephant forr me.
    对我而言，小汽车是个昂贵而无用的东西。
24. Not only that, due to clumsy government planning, when the sealink is finished it will be in danger of becoming a white elephant.
    不仅如此，由于政府笨拙的规划，当sealink大桥完工后，可能会成为白象那样的累赘之物。
25. Who would have thought to meet a white elephant.
    谁会想到会遇到一头白象啊！
26. There's a white elephant sale today.
    今天有珍品要廉价拍卖。
27. The new opera house will be a white elephant: it is too small for proper opera productions, and no large opera company will want to use it.
    这座新剧场将是无用而赘的东西：演出大型歌剧，它太小了，所以没有一家歌剧团愿意用它。
28. The project was believed to be nothing but a white elephant.
    这个项目被认为只是一项沉重的负担。
29. We finally realized that that large house my father left us in the country was really a white elephant, because it was too expensive to run and we couldn't find a purchaser.
    我们最后发现我父亲在乡间留给我们那栋大房子实在是个累赘，因为太过昂贵无法经营，而且我们无法找到买主。
30. White Elephant Gift Exchange: This is a gift exchange where everyone brings a gift, or just something around the house, that they didn't much care for.
    白象礼品交换：这个交换办法是这样的，每人都带来一件礼物或只是家里不太喜欢的某样东西来交换。

noun

1. albinic Indian elephant

2. a valuable possession whose upkeep is excessively expensive