Odie的英语课 738 Animal Idioms | Elephant in the room

737 复习lay an egg 下蛋；尴尬的失败，完全失败We really laid an egg last night and lost the game 7–0（seven to nil）. 昨晚我们惨败，7比0输掉了比赛。elephant in the room（人们不想谈及的）棘手问题，想回避、想忽视的问题用英文解释的话，= an obvious problem or difficult situation that people do not want to talk about 人们不想谈论的明显问题或困难情况obvious 明显的，显然的，清楚的使用的时候elephant前面要加定冠词或不定冠词an/the elephant in the roomThis is the elephant in the room.这是房间里的大象。/这是他们不想谈的问题。The elephant in the room is obvious.很明显这是他们不想谈的问题/想回避的问题。It is time to stop ignoring the elephant in the room.是时候停止忽视房间里的大象了。/是时候面对那个不想提及的棘手问题了。It is time to... 是……的时候了stop ignoring... 停止忽视……ignore 动词，忽视，不理会