boondoggle
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。
Our investment in water softeners was boondoggle.
我们在水软化器上的投资打了水漂。
He summarized the experience as a boondoggle.
他认为自己的经历没有价值，浪费了时间。
Our investment in water softeners was a boondoggle.
我们在水软化器上的投资打了水漂。
In here we have|some boondoggle key chains.
|这里有一些手工钥匙链.
Venice floodgate plan: boon or boondoggle?
摩西计划：城市福祉还是无聊作品？
Is “broadband for all” a recipe for recovery, or a boondoggle?
“全民宽带”是成功，还是徒劳？
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。
The U.S. and Canada duke it out over an alternative-fuel boondoggle.
美国和加拿大在代用燃料的事情上大打出手。
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。
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。
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。
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”。
The debate centers on how much government should regulate industry and whether that will affect climate change or be an expensive boondoggle.
争论的中心是，政府应当在多大程度上干预工业，以及这种干预是确实能够影响气候变化还是只不过是无效而昂贵的举动。
Still, it's likely the state's output of public resources for the anti-piracy program could end up a boondoggle if students move to encrypted file sharing programs.
然而，这些反盗版程式最终可能徒劳无功，如果学生利用加密文件来分享档案。
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。
D. Not another boondoggle!
不要在一个浪费公帑的开销、计画。
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。
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。
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。
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。
" So I'm gonna speak once, he smiled: "a boondoggle, no problem.
于是我把事情的前前后后讲了一回，他笑了：“小事一桩，没问题。”
'That's when the word 'boondoggle' first came into use' in its modern sense, says William Creech, of the U.
美国国家档案局(U.
“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。
" 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。
boondoggle
n. (童子军系的)皮绳, 无用的事 vi. 做无用的事