white whale

常見例句

雙語(yǔ)例句

• wh-Where is my white whale?
  wh-我的白鯨在哪裡？
• They almost find the white whale. Then they almost find the white whale. Then they find it.
  他們幾乎找到那衹白鯨了。然後他們又幾乎找到那衹白鯨了。然後他們找到了。
• Mr Assange may be the administration’s great white whale, but last year it netted a smaller fish when it sent an FBI linguist, Shamai Leibowitz, to prison for
  雖說(shuō)去年美國(guó)政府把曏部落格傳遞秘密文件的FBI語(yǔ)言學(xué)家沙邁·萊波維玆關(guān)押在監(jiān)獄20個(gè)月，可以說(shuō)捕獲了一條小魚兒，但阿桑奇先生才是美國(guó)政府最想捉拿的大白鯨。

原聲例句

• The ship's Captain Ahab is seeking to find the great,white whale that destroyed his former ship and bit off his leg.

權(quán)威例句

• Coolidge himself winds up unscathed, a sort of gray white whale that has eluded its baleful hunter.
  NEWYORKER: Less Said
• The Wall Street Journal has dubbed the former "Senator Ahab" for his "obsessive" pursuit of this white whale of a story about "politicized" intelligence.
  CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Truly "inappropriate" behavior
• It fixates the party, and the candidates, in much the same way that a certain great white whale obsessed Captain Ahab, dooming him and almost his entire crew.
  FORBES: The Secret to Victory: Feed The Opportunity, Starve The Problem
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