white whale

基本解釋

wh-Where is my white whale?
wh-我的白鯨在哪里？
They almost find the white whale. Then they almost find the white whale. Then they find it.
他們幾乎找到那只白鯨了。然后他們又幾乎找到那只白鯨了。然后他們找到了。
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
雖說去年美國(guó)政府把向部落格傳遞秘密文件的FBI語言學(xué)家沙邁·萊波維茲關(guān)押在監(jiān)獄20個(gè)月，可以說捕獲了一條小魚兒，但阿桑奇先生才是美國(guó)政府最想捉拿的大白鯨。

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.
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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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a small white toothed whale, Delphinapterus leucas, of northern waters: family Monodontidae (Also called beluga)