"A white elephant" means something that is useless, although it may cost a lot of money.
“白象”指的是无用却很昂贵的东西。
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。
She doesn't like music at all, and the piano you bought for her is really a white elephant.
她根本不喜欢音乐，你买的钢琴对她来说确实是一个累赘。
His newly employed woman servant was extremely lazy and ate a lot, no more than a white elephant.
他新雇佣的女佣相当懒，并且吃的比大象还多。
The car we bought last year is a white elephant; it USES a lot of petrol and breaks down again and again.
我们去年买的那辆汽车真是累赘，耗油量大，还经常出故障。
This led to the superimposition of a white elephant on the red field of the national flag of Siam, as Thailand was once known.
也因为如此，暹罗（泰国的旧称）的国旗便采用了红底衬托大白象的图案。
Its sister ship the Kuznetsov survived, but by the time the Soviet Union ceased to exist, the Varyag was a white elephant marooned off a port in the Black Sea.
它的姐妹舰库兹涅佐夫仍在服役，不过当前苏联分崩离析之时，瓦良格号这一白色的庞然大物却漂泊在黑海一港口之外。
Host a White Elephant Exchange in which friends and family bring unwanted gifts and all take turns pulling a number out of a hat to pick the next bizarre present.
举办一场无用的礼物交换活动。突施妙计让你的朋友或家人把他们不中意的礼物换成另一件不寻常的。
Host a White Elephant Exchange, in which friends and family bring unwanted gifts and all take turns pulling a number out of a hat to pick the next bizarre present.
举办一场无用的礼物交换活动。突施妙计让你的朋友或家人把他们不中意的礼物换成另一件不寻常的。
When he was riding a white elephant to the Emeishan practice, where he made the altar preaching, Emei also became a devout Buddhist disciples must come from the Buddhist holy sites.
当年他骑白象到峨眉山修炼，并在那里作坛讲经，峨眉山也就变成了虔诚的佛家弟子必来的佛家圣地。
In the popular example of a white bear or pink elephant, for example, trying not to think about an unusual and concrete object is the surest way to make that image stick in your mind.
例如，在广为人知的白熊(或粉红大象)案例里，努力去不想起一个奇特而具体的想象事物，恰恰会在内心里强化该事物的形象。
Farther on, they fell in behind a smaller elephant, white as old bone and pulling an ornate cart.
继续向前，他们跟在了一头小一点的象后面，它像白骨一样白，拉着一辆华丽的马车。
This shall be needed in the coming quarter millennia of Earth's continued ascension, and therefore elephant is choosing to phase out all gray lineages over time and become white as a species.
在地球持续提升的未来一千年中，这会被需要，而因此大象作为一个物种正选择去逐步淘汰灰色血统并变成白色。
Tree turned white, the white House, the earth also turned white, the elephant is covered with a layer of white, thick carpet, there is a white world, very beautiful!
树变白了，房子变白了，大地也变白了，象是铺着一层又白又厚的地毯，到处是一片白茫茫的世界，美丽极了！
The white Sirians that were seeded along with the red brown variety indeed had a similar role to elephant.
白色天狼星人与红褐色种类一起被播种，确实有着类似大象一样的任务。
The fox is wearing a gray coat, The elephant is wearing a very very long white trousers.
狐狸穿着银灰色的大衣大象穿着白色的长裤子都来到这里。
When not in his chariot, indra rode on the great white elephant Airavata, who was always victorious, and who had four tusks which resembled a sacred mountain.
不驾双轮战车的时候，他骑着战无不胜的白象艾拉·瓦塔，它有着四颗象牙，如同一座圣洁的山。
It was the custom of the monarch to bestow the highest praise by giving a royal white elephant to a courtier5 as a mark of especial favour.
暹罗的王室有个习俗，那就是国王会把王室的白象赠予朝臣作为最高的奖赏，而这成为了朝臣受宠的标志。
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。
The good elephant is a that evening, the white pigeon that your elephant only get hurt, helpless depend on in the column pole edge;
仿佛就是那天傍晚，你象只受伤的白鸽，无助的依在栏杆边缘；
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。
A 70% majority reported being "aggravated" by compulsory Secret Santa and white-elephant gift exchanges, and 22% are unhappy about being expected to give coworkers anything at all.
另有22%的受访者表示，一想到同事等着收礼物，不管送什么都不开心。
A 70% majority reported being "aggravated" by compulsory Secret Santa and white-elephant gift exchanges, and 22% are unhappy about being expected to give coworkers anything at all.
另有22%的受访者表示，一想到同事等着收礼物，不管送什么都不开心。
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