流逝汉英词典

elephantine

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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)

同根派生

     

英汉例句

    雙語例句

  • 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。

    • 權威例句

  • 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.
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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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词组短语

    短語

  • 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

英英字典

    劍橋英英字典

  • very large

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • If you describe something as elephantine, you mean that you think it is large and clumsy.