英语习语解析：The Elephant in the Room

1. My brother sat down for dinner with a black eye. He didn’t want to tell us what happened, so there was an elephant in the room for the duration of dinner.

我哥哥带着一只淤青了的眼睛来吃晚饭。他不想告诉我们发生了什么事情，所以整个晚饭的过程都有一只大象在房间里。

2.Financing schools has become a problem about equal to having an elephant in the living room. It's so big you just can't ignore it.

为学校提供资金的问题与起居间里的大象一般，它如此重大以致于你不可以视而不见。

3.His alcoholism was the elephant in the room. Everyone knew he had a drinking problem but no one said anything.

他的酗酒问题就像房间里的大象一般。每个人都知道他有酗酒问题，可是没有人提起。

●延伸 See Also …

1.Gorilla in the room，Elephant in the corner 和elephant in the room 有相同意思。

Everyone at work thought Dave was responsible for the mess in the bathroom. However, he addressed the gorilla in the room by explaining to everyone that he had nothing to do with it.

2.Seeing a pink elephant，来源于人们喝醉酒后看到的幻觉，表示看到幻觉。

Even when black holes crashed together and merged, the singularities—or pink elephants—would remain hidden by their event horizons, preventing their existence from throwing the outer cosmos into chaos.(Daniel Garisto, Scientific American)

3.Stick out like a sore thumb，表示事情像一只酸痛的大拇指一样显而易见。

Everyone else was in jeans and T-shirts and I had my office clothes on, I stuck out like a sore thumb.

●练习 Exercise

请结合今天的内容，尝试将以下句子翻译成中文。

1. Politicians are focusing on the wrong issue and ignoring the elephant in the room.

2. It was the elephant in the room for a long time until Tamara finally said something about it.返回搜狐，查看更多