elephant
n. 象；大号图画纸
n.
象，大象；
变形
复数：elephants
双语释义
n.(名词)[C]象,大象 largest four-footed animal now living, with two curved ivory tusks, thick skin, and a long trunk
英英释义
elephant[ 'elifənt ]
n.
five-toed pachyderm
the symbol of the Republican Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874
词汇搭配
用作名词 (n.)
动词+～
kill elephant捕杀大象
protect elephant保护大象
rain elephants and whales下倾盆大雨
see the elephant〈美俚〉见世面,开眼界,获得经验
形容词+～
African elephant非洲象
female elephant雌象
male elephant雄象
rogue elephant野象
white elephant白象,无用而累赘的东西
wild elephant野象
young elephant幼象
名词+～
trick elephant会演把戏的象
介词+～
a herd of elephants一群象
词组短语
white elephant白象，灰色象（在印度、东南亚被视为神圣之物）；无价值的东西
elephant seal n. 象海豹；海象
african elephant非洲象
elephant trunk象鼻管；溜管
双语例句
用作名词(n.)
The elephant smashed through the trees.
大象在树林中横冲直撞。
He said he could eat an elephant to appease his hunger.
他说他吃光一头大象才能充饥。
Jan's factory is an absolute white elephant.
简的那个工厂成了一个大包袱。
权威例句
Sketches of an Elephant: A Topos Theory CompendiumUterine fibroids: the elephant in the room.
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The elephant in uremia: oxidant stress as a unifying concept of cardiovascular disease in uremia.
Cytonuclear genomic dissociation in African elephant species.
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Don't think of an elephant! : know your values and frame the debate : the essential guide for progressives
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Core affect, prototypical emotional episodes, and other things called emotion: dissecting the elephant
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elephant: [13] Elephants were named from their tusks. Greek eléphās (probably a borrowing from a non-Indo-European language) meant originally ‘ivory’ (hence chryselephantine ‘of gold and ivory’ [19]). Only later did it come to denote the animal itself, and it passed in this sense into Latin as elephantus. By post-classical times this had become *olifantus, and it is a measure of the unfamiliarity of the beast in northern Europe in the first millenium AD that when Old English acquired the word, as olfend, it was used for the ‘camel’.Old French also had olifant (referring to the ‘elephant’ this time) and passed it on to English as olifaunt. It was not until the 14th century that, under the influence of the classical Latin form, this began to change to elephant. In the 16th and 17th centuries there was a learned revival of the sense ‘ivory’: Alexander Pope, for instance, in his translation of the Odyssey 1725, refers to ‘the handle … with steel and polish’d elephant adorn’d’.The notion of the white elephant as ‘something unwanted’ arose apparently from the practice of the kings of Siam presenting courtiers who had incurred their displeasure with real white elephants, the cost of whose proper upkeep was ruinously high.
elephant (n.)
c. 1300, olyfaunt, from Old French olifant (12c., Modern French éléphant), from Latin elephantus, from Greek elephas (genitive elephantos) "elephant; ivory," probably from a non-Indo-European language, likely via Phoenician (compare Hamitic elu "elephant," source of the word for it in many Semitic languages, or possibly from Sanskrit ibhah "elephant"). Re-spelled after 1550 on Latin model. Cognate with the common term for the animal in Romanic and Germanic; Slavic words (for example Polish slon', Russian slonu are from a different word. Old English had it as elpend, and compare elpendban, elpentoð "ivory," but a confusion of exotic animals led to olfend "camel." As an emblem of the Republican Party in U.S. politics, 1860. To see the elephant "be acquainted with life, gain knowledge by experience" is an American English colloquialism from 1835. The elephant joke was popular 1960s-70s.
1. A trunk distinguishes the elephant.
长鼻是象的特征。
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2. So the part of the elephant I experience applies what we know about people and how we apply that to UX design.
所以，我体验的那部分的大象就是我们对人的了解和我们将我们的了解应用于用户体验设计。
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3. Tom: No.Although 75% of its raw materials is elephant dung, it is light delicate fragrance instead of stink. This is due to its special fabrication technology.
不，尽管这种纸里75％的原料都是大象的粪便，但它不但不臭，反而有一种淡淡的清香，这是源于它的特殊的制造工艺。
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4. Let love filled with your sweet life, let every day after day, all the elephant kissings brilliant joy!
愿爱洋溢在你甜蜜的生活中，让以后的每一个日子，都象今日这般辉煌喜悦！
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5. The king says, "Feel the elephant and describe it to me.
国王说：“你们摸一下这只大象，然后描速给我听。”
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6. I now understand why the little elephant under the red blanket was so possessive of the man who had rescued her.
如今，我明白了为何裹着红毯的这只小象为何对于她的救命恩人有如此强的占有欲。
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7. Big extinct birds such as the giant moa,thunderbirds and elephant birds all left eggshells behind them.
像恐鸟、雷鸟和象鸟这样已经灭绝的鸟类都留下了它们的蛋壳化石。
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8. Even the wisest of them, as the elephant and the dog, do not think very much about what they see and hear.
即使是像大象和小狗这样最聪明的动物，也不能对它们的所见所闻加以思考。
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9. Could they tell us about young Ayesha and her elephant husband of 50?
她们能告诉我关于小阿伊莎和她的50岁的大象丈夫的事情吗？
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10. Gripping my hair with both hands, his own long hair blowing in the wind, he rode me like a mahout rides a baggy old elephant.
他用手抓住我的头发，他的长头发在风中飞舞，他骑在我身上，就像一名驯象师骑着一匹又肥又老的大象。
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11. And we did; it was primarily the elephant thing. And the slinky.
我们确实这样做了；就是上面提到的大象和苗条的事情。
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12. I ought, therefore, as the elephant was sideways on, to have aimed straight at his ear-hole, actually I aimed several inches in front of this, thinking the brain would be further forward.
由于大象是侧对着我，所以应该瞄准它的耳孔开枪，而实际上我瞄准的位置要向前偏几英寸，我认为那里应该是这家伙的大脑所在。
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13. This means that elephant populations will need to be managed.
这意味着大象种群数量需要得到控制。
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14. For example, the occasional elephant interrupts your flow of mice for several seconds and you cannot tune channel batch sizes to accommodate both message types.
例如，偶尔大象会将您的老鼠流中断几秒钟，并且您无法优化通道批量大小以同时适应这两种消息类型。
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15. So in the anticolonial view, America is now the rogue elephant that subjugates and tramples the people of the world.
因此，根据反殖民主义观点，如今的美国就像离群的凶猛大象，正在征服和践踏世界人民。
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16. She met them in New York, and they agreed to participate in a documentary about elephant poaching.
她在纽约与他们会面，他们同意参加一部有关偷猎大象状况纪录片的拍摄。
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17. I now understand why the little elephant under the red blanket was so possessive of the man who had rescued her.
我现在终于明白，为何在那红毯子里的小象，会对她的救命恩人有这么强的占有欲。
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18. As the giraffe and elephant watch in horror, they look at him and ask, "Lion, why did you do this?
长颈鹿和大象被吓坏了，它们看着狮子问它：“狮子，你为什么要打小白兔呢？
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19. On the right, there is a large stone elephant.
在右边,有一块巨大的石头的大象。
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20. One chilly evening some years ago in Zambia, I met a baby elephant wrapped in a red blanket.
几年前一个寒冷的晚上，我在赞比亚见到了一只裹着红色毛毯的小象。
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21. He and his team also introduced improved farming techniques, tools, and information on how to grow crops more efficiently and successfully without expanding into elephant habitat.
他和他的团队引入了改良的种植技术和工具，并引介了如何更有效地种植作物，同时避免向大象栖居地扩张。
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22. Wildlife was also elusive: I spotted a water buffalo, a couple of goats, several egrets and kingfishers but not one – in the fabled Land of a Million Elephants – elephant.
野生动物也难觅踪影：我看见一只水鸟、两头山羊、几只白鹭和翠鸟，但是在这个号称有百万大象的地方，连一头大象也没有看到。
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23. Contraception may be feasible -- but will only serve to control numbers in the future and not do much to help ease elephant numbers in the short term.
避孕的方法虽然比较可行，但这只能在未来对大象的繁殖起到控制作用，而对目前短期内减少大象数量不会有太大帮助。
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24. It can be helpful to understand and even experience the part of the elephant that others are experiencing.
理解甚至体验别人正在体验的大象的那一部分将会有一定的帮助。
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25. It can be helpful to understand and even experience the part of the elephant that others are experiencing.
理解甚至体验别人正在体验的大象的那一部分将会有一定的帮助。
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26. A full-grown elephant can weigh over 6,000 kilograms.
一头成年大象能重达六千多公斤。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
27. An African elephant has large floppy ears.
非洲象有一对肥大，松软下垂的耳朵。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
28. The elephant grinds its food with/between its powerful molars.
象用其强有力的臼齿嚼碎食物.
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
29. an ivory carving of an elephant
用象牙雕刻的象
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30. How big that elephant is!
那只象多大呀！
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31. The elephant is a sure-footed animal.
大象是步履稳健的动物。
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32. The elephant population in that area is falling.
那个地区的大象总数在下降。
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33. The children looked up in wonder at the big elephant.
孩子们惊异地抬头看那只大象。
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34. A trunk distinguishes the elephant.
（象）鼻使象有别于他类。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
35. Nowadays the usage @a white elephant@ is still widely used in Great Britain,
如今，“a white elephant”仍然在英国广泛使用，
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