boondoggle
英 ['bu?nd?g(?)l]
美['bundɑɡl]
- n. 手工品；細(xì)小而無用的事；勞動(dòng)力和生產(chǎn)工具不經(jīng)濟(jì)的利用
- vi. 做無聊的工作
詞態(tài)變化
復(fù)數(shù):?boondoggles;
中文詞源
boondoggle 細(xì)小而無用的事，面子工程boondoggle，原指一種類似中國(guó)結(jié)一樣的小裝飾品?，F(xiàn)詞義來自于1935年美國(guó)羅斯福新政時(shí)，政府投入幾百萬美元打著豐富失業(yè)人民業(yè)余生活的旗號(hào)開辦boondoggle workshop。
英文詞源
- boondoggle (n.)
- 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.
雙語例句
- 1. The new runway is a billion-dollar boondoggle.
- 新的機(jī)場(chǎng)跑道耗資10億美元，卻沒什么大用處。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Our investment in water softeners was a boondoggle.
- 我們?cè)谒浕魃系耐顿Y打了水漂.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)