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。
"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。
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。
We'll be trapped with white elephant stadiums.
现在他们又在用体育场馆这头白色大象来糊弄我们。
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。
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。
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。
I saw an unusual white elephant.
我看到一只罕见的白象。
There is a white elephant in our national flag.
我们的国旗白色的大象。
Our first flag had a white elephant on it.
我们的第一面国旗上就绘著一头白象！
Who would have thought to meet a white elephant.
谁会想到会遇到一头白象啊！
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。
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。
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 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。
That vase is a white elephant.
那个花瓶是个累赘。
A motor car would be a white elephant to me.
对我来说汽车可能是个累赘。
My new car turned out to be my white elephant.
我的新车成了我的累赘。
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。
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。
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。
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