albatross
n. 信天翁,沉重負擔
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.
私有化可能會成為該執政黨一個難以擺脫的政治障礙。
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.
她成了他的沉重負擔.
The project is a financial alBatross from the start.
這項工程從一開始就是個財政方面的大包袱.
The project is an economic albatross from the start.
這項工程從一開始就是財政方面的大包袱.
That institution has always been an albatross on their necks.
那個機構一直是他們的一項重大負擔.
The albatross can stay airborne at sea for days at a time.
信天翁在海上可以一連在空中待幾天.