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”；
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。
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。
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。
The new office block has become an expensive white elephant.
这座新办公大楼成了昂贵的摆设。
Five elephant skulls, bone white and half the size of bathtubs, are scattered about the area with pelvises, leg bones, ribs, shoulder blades, and other remains.
五头大象的头颅，白骨嶙峋、每颗头颅都有半只浴缸那么大，散落在这片林地，同时还可以看到骨盆、腿骨、肋骨、肩胛骨和其它遗留物。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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！
As he said this, the elephant bent down on his knees and offered up his spectacular silvery-white tusks.
象王一边说着，一边弯下膝盖，献出了他那银白色的巨大象牙。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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