零六五六深蓝词典

elephantine

E 开头单词GRE词汇

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

  • 来自elephant(n.大象)

同根派生

     

英汉例句

    双语例句

  • India’s current rulers, the mahouts to an elephantine state, seem at least to understand this.
    印度的决策者，如同有大象的地区的管象人一样，至少应该明白这一点。
  • Lastly, the commission should bolster its line on Lloyds Group, the elephantine product of a state-sponsored merger during the crisis.
    最近，委员会站在了劳埃德集团一边，该公司在经济危机期间享受政府大额自助，并接受合并。
  • The rare elephantine visitation undoubtedly reflected an "improvement in the country's foreign relations".
    毫无疑问，稀有大象造访这一事件很好诠释了““国家的外交关系正在改善”的说法。

    • 权威例句

  • Like gill slits, which derive ultimately from mammals' fishy ancestors, they betray a watery phase in elephantine evolution.
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  • 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

    短语

  • elephantine task 累赘的任务
  • elephantine humour 拙劣的幽默
  • elephantine humor 笨拙的幽默
  • Elephantine Island 大象岛;象岛;艾勒芬蒂尼岛
  • Elephantine Papyri 象岛纸莎草纸文献

英英字典

    剑桥英英字典

  • 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.