"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。
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”；
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。
Technology is technology, and the lack of proper pedagogy leads only to an expensive white elephant.
技术毕竟是技术，如果缺少教学法的指导，再好的技术也只能是昂贵的附属品。
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。
So, they moved the white elephant to the basement and opened the Verslunin Herdubreid design shop in their firm's storefront.
因此，他们把这个包袱甩到地下室，在原来的店面里开设了威尔斯鲁宁·赫尔杜布雷德设计商店。
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。
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。
The paper said that the white elephant is estimated to be 18 years old with the height of 2.16 meters and is the fifth white elephant captured since 2001.
报纸称这只白象身高2.16米，年龄估计为18岁。这是缅甸近10年以来发现的第5头白象。
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。
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。
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。
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。
But when the latest investment boom unwinds, there are concerns that Chinese cities will be littered with white elephant industrial projects that will stand empty for years.
但要是这几年的投资热停下来，有人担心中国各地将会斥着许多无人使用的累赘建筑。
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。
They are oak , beech, white elephant wood, Padauk, birch, Pine…we adopt Environmental protection plant paint, Non-toxic plant paint and insulative paint… it have Vintage color and modern color.
我司采用进口木原材料有来自印尼、菲律宾、马来西亚等橡木，进口榉木，白橡木，紫檀木，桦木，松木。
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。
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。
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