"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。
I feel that I've been given a second life to devote to something that is meaningful and enormous.
我觉得自己被赋予了第二次生命，将其投入到有意义和巨大的事业中去。
Although we have to wait longer for our letters, in today's busy world we need something that is worth waiting for.
虽然我们需要等待更长的时间才能收到信，但在今天这个繁忙的世界里，我们需要一些值得等待的东西。
Write an outline before you start writing the article, or you would easily write something that is beside the point.
在开始撰写文章之前写一个大纲，不然你很容易就会写一些离题的东西。
It's very pleasant to have a chance to talk to you about something that is obviously very much on everybody's minds.
很高兴有机会和大家谈谈一些显然每个人都很关心的事情。
First of all, Aristotle derived the term philia from Plato's eros, and he redefined love as something that is more dependent on reason than on passion.
首先，亚里士多德从柏拉图的厄洛斯衍生出了菲利亚一词，他重新定义爱为更依赖于理性而非激情的东西。
The snacking, over-drinking and overeating that makes people fat is not really their own fault: obesity is in large part something that is being done to them.
吃零食、酗酒和暴饮暴食使人发胖其实并不是他们自己的错：肥胖在很大程度上是他人造成的。
So the snacking, over-drinking and overeating that makes people fat is not really their own fault: obesity is in large part something that is being done to them.
因此，吃零食、酗酒和暴饮暴食导致人们发胖，并不是他们自己的错：肥胖在很大程度上是他人造成的。
Perhaps this is what photos are for: to remind us that we all appreciate beauty, that we all share a common desire for pleasure, for connection, for something that is greater than us.
也许这就是照片的作用：提醒我们都欣赏美丽的事物，提醒我们都想要得到快乐，想要与人联系，想变得更加优秀。
These variations are normal, and it's more useful to think of life as something that is ever evolving and changing, rather than a high risk enterprise where things could go wrong with one misstep.
这些变化很正常，我们不应把生活看作是运营一家高风险公司，一步错就步步错，而应把生活视为一个持续发展和变化的过程，这将会大有裨益。
Most administrators think of paging as something that is onerous.
大多数管理员都认为分页是一件很麻烦的事情。
Midweek the energy shifts towards something that is more "future oriented"...
本周中期，星运转向未来。
A work item is something that is to be completed in the domain of this project area.
一个工作条目就是在这个项目区域的领域完成的事件。
Generally speaking, something that is complex has many interconnected, interacting parts.
通常来说，复杂的事物具有许多互相连接、互相作用的部分。
A bad omen is something that is believed to bring badluck, like black cats, spiders or bats.
人们相信恶兆会带给坏运气，黑猫、蜘蛛或者蝙蝠都算是恶兆。
Mom: Yes, you are a superman, so we arrange something that is just suitable for a man like you.
妈妈：是啊，你是超人，所以我们安排你做些适合你这样的男子汉做的事情。
Can Cisco offer something that is really different and become number one or two in this market?
思科能提供一些真的与众不同的东西，并成为市场上数一数二的公司吗？
"It is all part of understanding a lost world, rediscovering something that is gone," she said.
“这只不过是了解过去的一个途径，并且重新审视历史”她说。
So all you're doing is making something explicit of something that is already there explicitly.
所以你们做的就是外显，已经在那外显的。
Autism is something that is misunderstood under the best of circumstances, let alone a war zone.
自闭症在环境处在最好的情况下都常被误解，更别说是在战乱地区了。
That's something that is more critical than ever as we move forward with mobile web development.
随着我们步入手机网页开发时代，这样的技术越来越重要。
There is no success without hard work; success is something that is only earned after much labor.
没有一样成功不通过艰辛的工作，成功是只有通过大量苦干后才能赚得的东西。
The idea behind a VFS is simple: it represents as a filesystem something that is not a filesystem.
VFS背后的构想很简单：它将不是文件系统的事物表示为文件系统。
The authenticity of other user opinions is something that is difficult to replicate by your business.
其他用户的真实性观点是很难通过你的商业进行复制的。
It governance is sometimes a touchy issue; it's something that is more often preached than practiced.
IT治理有时候是个很微妙的问题；有时候这方面更多是提得多做得少。
We think that this type of information is something that is important from a humanitarian standpoint.
我们认为这类资讯从人道立场来说是很重要的。
Whenever you come across something that is meaningful and noteworthy, incorporate that into your book.
不论什么时候你碰到有意义和值得注意的事，把它写进你的手册里。
Imagination is the ability to form a mental image of something that is not perceived through the senses.
想象力是形成意识画面的一种能力，并且这个画面不是通过感官得到的。
Imagination is the ability to form a mental image of something that is not perceived through the senses.
想象力是形成意识画面的一种能力，并且这个画面不是通过感官得到的。
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