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●今日习语 – Idiom Today
The Elephant in the Room
●词源典故 Etymology and Origin
“在房间里的大象”，指的是大象的身型巨大，可是却可以被无视。这句话是用来暗喻某件作业尽管像大象相同显着，却被集体视若无睹、不做谈论、不做争论。
%20这个习语来历于俄罗斯的一个寓言故事《猎奇的人》(The%20Inquisitive%20Man)，叙说一个男人走进博物馆时留心到所以细节，却没有留心到其间最显眼的大象。此后，“房中象”就变成了习语，而且不止呈如今不一样的文学作品里边，还被我们在往常日子中被广泛使用。
%20在卫报《The%20Guardian》的一则造访傍边，记者/作家霍莉·瓦特就把新冠肺炎比方为房间里的大象：
%20“It%20is%20the%20massive%20elephant%20in%20the%20room,%20I’m%20trying%20to%20work%20out%20
where we might be. Might there be a vaccine? How interesting can a book actually be when everyone is sitting in their sitting room in their pajamas?”
“这就是房间里的一头无量的大象，我自个在想，咱们将来究竟会在哪呢？会不会有疫苗呢？而我写的书，当我们只能穿戴睡衣在家呆着的时分又会有多风趣呢？”
●例句和翻译 Examples and Translation
1.%20My%20brother%20sat%20down%20for%20dinner%20with%20a%20black%20eye.%20He%20didn’t%20want%20to%20tell%20us%20what%20happened,%20so%20there%20was%20an%20elephant%20in%20the%20room%20for%20the%20duration%20
of dinner.
我哥哥带着一只淤青了的双眼来吃晚饭。他不想告诉咱们发生了啥作业，所以整个晚饭的进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.
为学校供给资金的疑问与起居间里的大象一般，它如此严峻致使于你不可以以视若无睹。
3.His alcoholism was the elephant in the room. Everyone knew he had a drinking problem but no one said anything.
他的酗酒疑问就像房间里的大象一般。每自个都晓得他有酗酒疑问，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，来历于我们喝醉酒后看到的幻觉，标明看到幻觉。
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，标明作业像一只酸痛的大拇指相同清楚明晰。
Everyone else was in jeans and T-shirts and I had my office clothes on, I stuck out like a sore thumb.
●操练 Exercise
请联系今日的内容，测验将以下语句翻译成中文。
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.回来搜狐，查看更多
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