elephantine
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˌel.ɪˈfæn.taɪn]
- 美式音标 [ˌel.əˈfæn.taɪn]
- 国际音标 [,eli'fæntain, -tin]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- adj. 似象的；巨大的；粗笨的，笨拙的
词根记忆
- 来自elephant(n.大象)
英汉例句
- India’s current rulers, the mahouts to an elephantine state, seem at least to understand this.
印度的决策者，如同有大象的地区的管象人一样，至少应该明白这一点。 - Lastly, the commission should bolster its line on Lloyds Group, the elephantine product of a state-sponsored merger during the crisis.
最近，委员会站在了劳埃德集团一边，该公司在经济危机期间享受政府大额自助，并接受合并。 - The rare elephantine visitation undoubtedly reflected an "improvement in the country's foreign relations".
毫无疑问，稀有大象造访这一事件很好诠释了““国家的外交关系正在改善”的说法。 - Like gill slits, which derive ultimately from mammals' fishy ancestors, they betray a watery phase in elephantine evolution.
ECONOMIST: The elephant and the mermaid - In lower Egypt there is the island of Yeb or Elephantine (opposite Syene) which was an important administrative and military center.
FORBES: This Just in for Women's History Month: God Had a Wife - This fits my thesis that the elephantine Saudi reservoirs are long in the tooth and could peak in a few years.
FORBES: Magazine Article
双语例句
权威例句
词组短语
- elephantine task 累赘的任务
- elephantine humour 拙劣的幽默
- elephantine humor 笨拙的幽默
- Elephantine Island 大象岛;象岛;艾勒芬蒂尼岛
- Elephantine Papyri 象岛纸莎草纸文献
短语
英英字典
- very large
- If you describe something as elephantine, you mean that you think it is large and clumsy.