white elephant
常見例句
- This month the government said it might keep a white-elephant dam project that it had long promised to scrap.
本月，政府稱，也許會保留一個一直承諾要廢除的毫無意義的水壩項目。 - Some rebuilding can be financed by redirecting spending from useless white-elephant projects to the higher priority of remaking Tohoku.
把建設(shè)無用工程的投資轉(zhuǎn)移到更重要的名古屋重建上來，一些重建費用可以通過這種方式進(jìn)行融資。 - But it will be an uphill task. Indonesians have come to cherish their local freedoms, with good cause—even if it means a white-elephant stadium or three.
但這將是一項步履維艱的工程。印尼人現(xiàn)在意識到并開始珍惜自己的地方自主權(quán)，這是有著長久淵源的。他們不會放棄這一道路，即使代價是一個“繡花枕頭”體育場或更多個。 - Indonesians have come to cherish their local freedoms, with good cause—even if it means a white-elephant stadium or three.
ECONOMIST: Indonesia - Dick Durbin assure us, not because they want to use federal money to indemnify their home state for a white-elephant prison Illinois taxpayers should never have built, but because Guantanamo Bay simply must be closed.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Gitmo does not cause terrorism - He began to write a novel, set during Brazil's hosting of the World Cup in 2014, in which public money was yet again disappearing into private pockets, and white-elephant stadiums were rising across the land.
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