boondoggle

现在分词：

动词现在分词: boondoggling

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：

Our investment in water softeners was boondoggle.

我们在水软化器上的投资打了水漂。

He spent too much time on boondoggle, and that's why he went nowhere.

他之所以不成功，是因为在琐事上花了太多时间。

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。

So, when the dishonest politician wants to hornswoggle the public with a boondoggle, he usually explains things in gobbledygook.

所以，当不诚实的政客想用“无价值的琐事”去“哄骗”群众时，他通常会用“官样文章”来敷衍。

" 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。

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。

Plus, with the Las Vegas approach you may find that you're hooked (in which case, you should see our How Craps Works article) and subsequently lose your fortune on your next boondoggle.

另外，在拉斯维加斯也许你会陷入赌场的陷阱，然后失去你所有的财富。

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。

As Congress moves to consider the largest financial bailout in our nation’s history I want you to know that I will be voting NO on this boondoggle.

当美国国会准备考虑我们国家历史上最大的金融救市时，我要你知道，我将要表决对它说“不”。