"elephant in the room" meaning in All languages combined

See elephant in the room on Wiktionary

Noun [英語]

Audio: en-au-elephant in the room.ogg Forms: elephants in the room [plural]
Etymology: 可能源自美國,或源自伊萬·克雷洛夫1814年的寓言“好奇的男人”,內容是一個男人去了博物館,注意到了很多東西,除了一頭大象。
  1. “房子裡的大象”:一些社會上難以講述的事實(如涉及人權、政治、種族衝突),這些事情通常涉及各別陣營的利害衝突,所以為了不造成直接的對立,大家選擇沉默以對。
    Sense id: zh-elephant_in_the_room-en-noun-bi0oE2yY Categories (other): 有引文的英語詞, 英語引文翻譯請求
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms (“房子裡的大象”:一些社會上難以講述的事實(如涉及人權、政治、種族衝突),這些事情通常涉及各別陣營的利害衝突,所以為了不造成直接的對立,大家選擇沉默以對。): 800-pound gorilla, gorilla in the room Derived forms: gorilla in the room
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