white whale
常见例句
- wh-Where is my white whale?
wh-我的白鲸在哪里? - They almost find the white whale. Then they almost find the white whale. Then they find it.
他们几乎找到那只白鲸了。然后他们又几乎找到那只白鲸了。然后他们找到了。 - 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
虽说去年美国政府把向部落格传递秘密文件的FBI语言学家沙迈·莱波维兹关押在监狱20个月,可以说捕获了一条小鱼儿,但阿桑奇先生才是美国政府最想捉拿的大白鲸。 - The ship's Captain Ahab is seeking to find the great,white whale that destroyed his former ship and bit off his leg.
- 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.
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