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基本例句
n.累赘；大而无用的东西；贵而无用的东西；动白象
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。 yeeyan
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。 ecocn |