elephantine

常见例句

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.
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In lower Egypt there is the island of Yeb or Elephantine (opposite Syene) which was an important administrative and military center.
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This fits my thesis that the elephantine Saudi reservoirs are long in the tooth and could peak in a few years.
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