albatross
n. 信天翁,沉重负担
An albatross is a very large white seabird.
If you describe something or someone as an albatross around your neck, you mean that they cause you great problems from which you cannot escape, or they prevent you from doing what you want to do.
Privatization could become a political albatross for the ruling party.
私有化可能会成为该执政党一个难以摆脱的政治障碍。
1. (figurative) something that hinders or handicaps;
2. large web-footed birds of the southern hemisphere having long narrow wings; noted for powerful gliding flight
She was an albatross around his neck.
她成了他的沉重负担.
The project is a financial alBatross from the start.
这项工程从一开始就是个财政方面的大包袱.
The project is an economic albatross from the start.
这项工程从一开始就是财政方面的大包袱.
That institution has always been an albatross on their necks.
那个机构一直是他们的一项重大负担.
The albatross can stay airborne at sea for days at a time.
信天翁在海上可以一连在空中待几天.