First let's point out the elephant in the room: Control.

首先指出的是控制。

Gender balance, she wrote back then, is the elephant in the room.

她回顾道，那时，性别平衡是大家心照不宣、人所共知的问题。

That recession (or the shortage of global aggregate demand) is the elephant in the room.

衰退（或者说全球总体需求短缺）是明摆着的的现实（英谚：房中的大象，the elephant in the room，译者注）。

But its worst failure is over what Mr Heikal calls the elephant in the room: fuel subsidies.

其中最失败之便是海卡尔(Heikal)所谓的“房间里的大象[1]”：燃料补贴。

Sometimes Jeremy is the elephant in the room no one wants to talk about, afraid to upset someone.

有时候“杰里米”就像是一个难言之隐，无人愿意提及，他们害怕让别人难受。