boondoggle

英 [ˈbuːndɒɡl]

美 [ˈbuːndɑːɡl]

n.  毫无意义的工作(或事情); 浪费时间金钱的工作(或事情)

现在分词：boondoggling　过去式：boondoggled　第三人称单数：boondoggles　过去分词：boondoggled　

COCA.27050

牛津词典

noun

• 毫无意义的工作（或事情）；浪费时间金钱的工作（或事情）
  a piece of work that is unnecessary and that wastes time and/or money

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 浪费时间金钱的无用机构；毫无意义的活动
  People sometimes refer to an official organization or activity as aboondogglewhen they think it wastes a lot of time and money and does not achieve much.
  1. The new runway is a billion-dollar boondoggle.
     新的机场跑道耗资10亿美元，却没什么大用处。

英英释义

noun

• work of little or no value done merely to look busy

verb

• do useless, wasteful, or trivial work

双语例句

• 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 new runway is a billion-dollar boondoggle.
  新的机场跑道耗资10亿美元，却没什么大用处。
• Our investment in water softeners was a boondoggle.
  我们在水软化器上地投资打了水漂。
• "While the former athletes'village turned out to be a boondoggle, the Olympics spurred construction along False Creek that has done very well," said Campbell.
  “当前奥运村成为泡影后，冬奥会促使佛斯港湾的建筑水平有了显著提高。”坎贝尔说道。
• And then there was another crazy idea of building a capital on a square of swampland that seemed mainly to be a boondoggle for wealthy land speculators at the time.
  此外，还有一个疯狂的搬迁首都例子，就是在一片沼泽地上建立一个都城，这在当时看来简直就是有钱的土地投机商的异想天开。
• 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。
• Condoms, honey bee insurance, roads in Guam, ice-breaking polar ships – think of a boondoggle and the almost$ 900bn US fiscal stimulus package appears to have it.
  避孕套、蜜蜂保险，关岛的道路、极地破冰船&你想到的任何一件琐碎事物，似乎都包含在美国接近9000亿美元的财政刺激方案之中。
• In here we have some boondoggle key chains.
  这里有一些手工钥匙链。