boondoggle的意思|boondoggle的解释-里氏词典

boondoggle ['bu:ndɒgl]

vi. 做细小而无用的事

n. 细小而无用的事, 手工品

[经] 劳动力和生产工具不经济的利用, 浪费

Our investment in water softeners was a boondoggle.
我们在水软化器上的投资打了水漂。
Immigration agents will begin fingerprinting international visitors this week who they think may pose security risks. Are we fighting terrorism? or are we trying to create a new boondoggle.
移民官员本周开始对可能有安全问题的外国旅客印指纹。我们在打击恐怖主义？也许是白费心机。
And if there were any doubt this was a boondoggle, it ought to be resolved by the fact that the City also has thrown in tax breaks that will amount to millions of dollars of savings for the Times.
若有人说这是小事一桩，那就应该让这一事实来说话：纽约市已经给予纽约时报很大的税收照顾，仅此可以为其省下几百万美元。

boondoggle

[ noun ]

work of little or no value done merely to look busy

<noun.act>

[ verb ]

do useless, wasteful, or trivial work

<verb.social>

boondoggle \boon"dog*gle\ v.
1. a braided cord made by hand by young scouts, used for
various purposes, such as a hat cord or a key chain.

2. a useless, wasteful, or impractical project; -- especially
one authorized by a government agency as a favor to
partisans, to employ unemployed people, or in return for
corrupt payments.
[PJC]

boondoggle \boon"dog*gle\ v.
to do useless, wasteful, or trivial work.
[WordNet 1.5]

Mrs. Aquino, who so far has made a successful career out of busting bad government, is being asked to hand her people a Marcos-sized land-reform boondoggle in the name of "social justice."
On its first anniversary, the Hibbing plant was criticized by Independent-Republican leaders as a government-backed boondoggle conceived for Perpich's hometown.
The reason "plant closings" became the centerpiece of opposition to the trade bill is that the professed free marketeers of big business support the rest of the boondoggle.
Simon last week held a Chicago hearing on the savings and loan crisis, in which he urged stricter prosecutions of those who defrauded the nation's thrifts in what has been estimated to be a $500 billion boondoggle for taxpayers.

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