" They look like white elephants, " she said.

“它们看起来就像一群白象。”她说。

The term white elephant traces back to Thailand.

“白象”这个词可以追溯到泰国。

They don't need to get it at a " white elephant" party.

他们不需要在“白象”派对上得到它。

Some call this a “train to nowhere”, others a white elephant.

一些人把它叫做“无所适从的列车”，其它人则说它是华而不实，赘而无用。

I said the mountains looked like white elephants.

我说这些山看上去像群白象。

Some experts say the country has built itself a herd of white elephants.

一些专家说，这个国家已经为自己建立了一群“白象”。

Ancient rulers across Southeast Asia kept white elephants because of the good luck they were thought to bring.

整个东南亚的古代统治者都会饲养白象，因为人们认为它们能带来好运。

Buddha's mother dreamed a white elephant had entered her womb when she was pregnant with him.

佛陀的母亲怀着佛陀时，曾梦见一头白象进入了她的子宫。

Some, such as GIFT City, a pet project of Narendra Modi, the prime minister, in Gujarat, look like white elephants.

一些项目，比如纳伦德拉·莫迪总理喜欢的古吉拉特邦国际金融科技城项目，看起来价值不菲且华而不实。

Does anyone here even like the white elephant gift exchange?

这里有人甚至喜欢白象礼物交换吗？

And what's the deal with white elephant gift exchanges?

白象礼物交换是怎么回事？

Our first flag had a white elephant on it.

我们的第一面旗帜上就有一只白象。

Can this project redeem the city or  will it become another white elephant?

这个项目能否拯救这座城市，还是会成为另一头白象？

I mean, Africa is not the only region of the world to be guilty of white elephant projects.

我的意思是， 非洲并不是世界上唯一犯有白象项目的地区。

It is a beautiful national park that owes its name to a three-headed white elephant from the Hindu culture.

这是一个美丽的国家公园，得名于印度教文化中的三头白象。

It was assembled from shipping containers and modular steel, so it can be disassembled after the World Cup: no stadium, no white elephant.

它是用集装箱和模组钢材组装而成的，所以它可以在世界杯后拆卸：没有体育场，就没有“白象”。

" They're lovely hills, " she said. " They don't really look like white elephants. I just meant the coloring of their skin through the trees."

“这些山真是美极了，”她说，“看上去并不是真的像一群白象。我说的是透过树木看到山表面的颜色是白的。”

7 Erawan national park It is a beautiful national park That owes its name to a three-headed white elephant From the Hindu culture.

7 爱侣湾国家公园 这是一个美丽的国家公园，因印度教文化中的三头白象而得名。

Yet whereas petrostates such as Nigeria and Angola have ploughed money into industrial white elephants, Botswana has invested in future sources of wealth, including education and infrastructure.

然而，当尼日利亚和安哥拉等石油国家将资金投入到无用的工业项目时，博茨瓦纳却投资于未来的财富来源，包括教育和基础设施建设。

State television in Myanmar has released footage of a rare white elephant born in the western Rakhine state, an animal considered auspicious in the Buddhist majority country.

缅甸国家电视台公布了一只罕见的白象出生在若开邦西部的画面，这种动物在这个佛教徒占多数的国家被认为是吉祥的象征。