boondoggle
boondoggle 英 [ˈbu:ndɒgl] 美 [ˈbundɑgl]
n. 手工品；细小而无用的事；劳动力和生产工具不经济的利用 vi. 做无聊的工作
进行时:boondoggling 过去式:boondoggled 过去分词:boondoggled 第三人称单数:boondoggles 名词复数:boondoggles
- A boondoggle is a useless, trivial piece of work — it's a waste of time. If you're serious about your career, you should avoid boondoggles.
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- n. 手工品；细小而无用的事；劳动力和生产工具不经济的利用
- vi. 做无聊的工作
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1. An investigative reporter discovered that one of the projects we funded was a boondoggle.
一份调查报告显示，我们资助的一个项目纯粹是浪费钱。
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2. China’s huge investment in high-speed rail may be instructive to the United States, whether for proponents of federal rail investments or critics who consider bullet trains a boondoggle.
无论是对那些赞成政府投资铁路的支持者，还是持高铁无用论的批评者而言，中国在高铁上的巨大投入都能让美国得到启发。
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3. The best way to make sure that a vast stimulus package doesn't turn into a federal boondoggle bonanza is for that money to go directly to private citizens and local governments.
要确保庞大的刺激计划不沦为一堆废纸最好的方法是，把钱直接交到个人手里，或者地方政府手里。
- boondoggle (n.) "A trivial, useless, or unnecessary undertaking; wasteful expenditure" [OED], 1935, American English, of uncertain origin, popularized during the New Deal as a contemptuous word for make-work projects for the unemployed. Said to have been a pioneer word for "gadget;" it also was by 1932 a Boy Scout term for a kind of woven braid.
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