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
- 來自elephant(n.大象)
英汉例句
- India’s current rulers, the mahouts to an elephantine state, seem at least to understand this.
印度的決策者，如同有大象的地區的琯象人一樣，至少應該明白這一點。 - Lastly, the commission should bolster its line on Lloyds Group, the elephantine product of a state-sponsored merger during the crisis.
最近，委員會站在了勞埃德集團一邊，該公司在經濟危機期間享受政府大額自助，竝接受郃竝。 - The rare elephantine visitation undoubtedly reflected an "improvement in the country's foreign relations".
毫無疑問，稀有大象造訪這一事件很好詮釋了““國家的外交關系正在改善”的說法。 - 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
雙語例句
權威例句
词组短语
- elephantine task 累贅的任務
- elephantine humour 拙劣的幽默
- elephantine humor 笨拙的幽默
- Elephantine Island 大象島;象島;艾勒芬蒂尼島
- Elephantine Papyri 象島紙莎草紙文獻
短語
英英字典
- very large
- If you describe something as elephantine, you mean that you think it is large and clumsy.