
幻觉;不可能的事;离奇的事
If so, pink elephants and bronze statues may prove less effective in getting out the dalit vote.
这样来看,可能粉象和铜雕对争取达利人的支持率来说都是浮云吧。
Here is a list of them: Ivory, Monkeys, peacocks, jewels, pink elephants, little blue dogs, gold insects, and the feathers of angels.
这里是一份清单:象牙,猴子,孔雀,珠宝,粉色大象,小蓝狗,金昆虫,还有天使的羽毛。
Pink sandstone elephants stand to attention on granite plinths. Fountains leap, as more elephants squirt jets of water.
花岗岩底座上整齐地立着几只粉色砂岩大象。更多的大象喷出一串串水流,引起喷泉跃动。
And in another, Portia Munson had covered a table with, well, the color pink: pink plastic combs, pink plastic elephants, pink plastic dolls, the pink Panther.
而另一个展厅,Portia Munson用各种艺术品,粉色的,堆满一整张桌子:粉色的塑料梳子,粉色的塑料大象,粉色的塑料娃娃还有粉红豹。
"Pink elephants" 是一个英语俚语,通常以复数形式出现,其含义可从以下两方面理解:
指因酗酒或药物作用而产生的幻觉,尤其是醉酒后看到的虚构事物。该表达起源于西方文化中对“醉酒后看到粉色大象”这一离奇视觉现象的夸张描述。
比喻不可能实现的事情或荒诞离奇的事物。例如:“Trying to convince him is like chasing pink elephants.”(试图说服他就像追逐不可能的事物)。
注意:此短语多用于口语和非正式语境,正式写作中建议使用"hallucination"或"delusion"等标准词汇替代。
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