boondoggle

过去分词：

动词过去分词: boondoggled

更多词形：

名词: boondog-gler | 动词过去式: boondoggled | 动词过去分词: boondoggled | 动词现在分词: boondoggling | 动词第三人称单数: boondoggles |

单词例句：

Before it became a bad word, “boondoggle” was an innocent, humble craft.

在成为贬义词之前，boondoggle只是一个中性词汇，指的一种工艺。

Our investment in water softeners was a boondoggle.

我们在水软化器上的投资打了水漂。

“If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this Depression,” Roosevelt said, “that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

他说，如果我们通过boondoggle可以走出衰退，那么在未来的岁月中，这将变成一个令美国人激动振奋的词。

It was a good boondoggle for the borrower.

对于举债的一方来说，这不过是一种雕虫小技。

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。

But they have something else in common, too.They are popular locally.And they underscore a truth that has been evident since the New Deal: sometimes the boondoggle is in the eye of the beholder.

但是他们也有一些共同之处，他们在当地都是人气较高的，他们强调了一个真理，也是罗斯福新政以来不言自明的一个道理：一个事物在旁观者看来往往是多余的。

In here we have|some boondoggle key chains.

|这里有一些手工钥匙链.

" If a dishonest politician wants to hornswoggle the taxpayers, he invents a "boondoggle," which is a useless, expensive project which does nobody any good.

如果一个不诚实的政客想对纳税人进行隐瞒，他就制造boondoggle(无价值的琐事)，这是一个对任何人都没有好处的、无用的、昂贵的工程。

Normally, the object that collect must be boondoggle, craft must complex, admire without what otherwise, collect value.

通常，收藏的对象必须是手工品，工艺必须复杂，否则就没有什么欣赏、收藏价值。