boondoggle

美 [?bun?dɑɡl] 　英 [?bu?nd?ɡl]

• n.毫無(wú)意義的工作（或事情）；浪費(fèi)時(shí)間金錢(qián)的工作（或事情）
• v.(花錢(qián)費(fèi)時(shí)間)做無(wú)價(jià)值的事
• 網(wǎng)絡(luò)細(xì)小而無(wú)用的事；無(wú)效的投資；釣魚(yú)工程

詞形變化

復(fù)數(shù)：boondoggles  

英漢雙解

英漢解釋

n.	1. (童子軍的)皮繩;(皮或柳條制的)手工品 2. 無(wú)價(jià)值的瑣事
v.	1. (花錢(qián)費(fèi)時(shí)間)做無(wú)價(jià)值的事

英英解釋

n.	1. a plan or project, especially one created by the government, that wastes a lot of time and money

例句

By the time the corruption-ridden boondoggle was completed in 1904, Alexander's son, Nicholas II, was technically bankrupt.

當(dāng)這項(xiàng)耗費(fèi)巨大而又腐敗深重的鐵路最終于1904年建成時(shí)，亞歷山大的兒子、沙皇尼古拉二世從技術(shù)層面上分析已屬于破產(chǎn)。

Our investment in water softeners was a boondoggle.

在水軟化器上的投資打了水漂。

Windows Vista had more than its share of problems, most notably the device driver boondoggle.

WindowsVista存在的問(wèn)題實(shí)在不少，最突出的問(wèn)題是設(shè)備驅(qū)動(dòng)繁瑣。

He summarized the experience as a boondoggle.

他認(rèn)為自己的經(jīng)歷沒(méi)有價(jià)值，浪費(fèi)了時(shí)間。

Most other biologists deemed the idea either practically impossible or a financial boondoggle.

大部分其他生物學(xué)家不是認(rèn)為這個(gè)想法不切實(shí)際，就是認(rèn)為它浪費(fèi)錢(qián)財(cái)。

An investigative reporter discovered that one of the projects we funded was a boondoggle.

一份調(diào)查報(bào)告顯示，我們資助的一個(gè)項(xiàng)目純粹是浪費(fèi)錢(qián)。

It's also likely that the whole thing will be a boondoggle.

也有可能整個(gè)行動(dòng)會(huì)是一種舍本逐末的做法。

A boondoggle , a disaster, twenty years in the making.

根本沒(méi)有什么作用，二十多年來(lái)一直在制造災(zāi)難。