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elephantine adj.像(一樣)的;巨大的;笨重的,粗笨的,累贅的。 ...

eleutheromania

I have just been telling you what i think , in order to explain why the elephantine gambols of madame tetralani spoil the orchestra for me 我剛才只是告訴你我的感想。目的是解釋特綽蘭尼夫人那大象式的蹦蹦跳跳為什么在我眼里破壞了歌劇。

A more apt elephantine expression is found in swahili : when two elephants fight it is the grass that gets hurt 一個更貼切的,對巨大的表達在班圖語里是:當兩頭大象打架的時候,受傷的是草皮。

Their daughter is quite plump but their son is positively elephantine 他們的女兒很胖;可是兒子呢,簡直像大象