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white elephant

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  • n.昂贵而无用之物；大而无用的东西；贵而无用的东西；【动】白象
  • 网络无用而累赘的东西；昂贵又无用之物；累赘物

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white elephant

n.

1.昂贵而无用之物a thing that is useless and no longer needed, although it may have cost a lot of money

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The foreign aid to the country was believed to be nothing but a white elephant.
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Him a white lie, which made him white with fury, but when he realized his project is a white elephant, his face turned as white as a sheet.
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The exact nature of the link between a wandering white elephant and Hillary Clinton is a Burmese mystery too deep to delve here.
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His birth was foretold by a spirit (a white elephant rather than the angel Gabriel) who then entered his mother's womb!
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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.
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This month the government said it might keep a white-elephant dam project that it had long promised to scrap.
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Some rebuilding can be financed by redirecting spending from useless white-elephant projects to the higher priority of remaking Tohoku.
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When he bought a car he didn't know it was going to be such a white elephant.
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The kings used a white elephant to punish any of his men who displeased him.
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They gave us a number of very large pictures as a wedding present; but as we lived in a very small flat the present was a white elephant.
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A "white elephant" is something which will cost you money, perhaps an increasing amount of money over time, and in the end, have no value.
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Each holiday for me seemed like a white elephant, a thing which can't make people excited.
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That would be a white elephant to me.
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We don't want the house, which has been a white elephant.
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The new printer's a white elephant. It's very complicated to use, so everyone still prints with the old one.
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The family sits alfresco in front of a pub whose name, the White Elephant, may be intended to convey a grim irony.
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The new opera house will be a white elephant: it is too small for proper opera productions, and no large opera company will want to use it.
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So, they moved the white elephant to the basement and opened the Verslunin Herdubreid design shop in their firm's storefront.
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