| 词汇 | elephant-in-the-room |
| 释义 | an elephant in the roomidiom informal If you say there is an elephant in the room, you mean that there is an obvious problem or difficult situation that people do not want to talk about.（人们不愿提及的）棘手问题 Difficult situations and unpleasant experiences a hard/tough row to hoeidiom abyss adversity at your worstidiom Augean bad hair day epidemic hardness have a bumpy rideidiom have someone over a barrelidiom pall purgatory push factor quagmire quicksand rabbit hole scrape strait the Augean Stablesidiom the hard wayidiom the elephant in the room | American Dictionarythe elephant in the roomidiom an obvious problem that no one wants to discuss: I don't want to ask the question, but it is the big elephant in the room. Examples of an elephant in the rooman elephant in the room Theelephantintheroom no one wanted to see was money. Throughout our deliberations, theelephantintheroom was the 60,000 pensioners who had lost all or part of their pension. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The metaphor has been mixed, on occasion, with the metaphor of theelephantintheroom. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The sad elephant, sometimes also called theelephantintheroom, is a large elephant with a tear dropping from its eye. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The anchor responded that the caller had pointed out theelephantintheroom that, until then, the media was hesitant to suggest. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The truth then becomes theelephantintheroom; no matter how obvious it is, the people most affected pretend to others and to themselves that it is not so. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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