white elephant
常见例句
- This month the government said it might keep a white-elephant dam project that it had long promised to scrap.
本月，政府称，也许会保留一个一直承诺要废除的毫无意义的水坝项目。 - Some rebuilding can be financed by redirecting spending from useless white-elephant projects to the higher priority of remaking Tohoku.
把建设无用工程的投资转移到更重要的名古屋重建上来，一些重建费用可以通过这种方式进行融资。 - 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.
但这将是一项步履维艰的工程。印尼人现在意识到并开始珍惜自己的地方自主权，这是有着长久渊源的。他们不会放弃这一道路，即使代价是一个“绣花枕头”体育场或更多个。 - 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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