查询词典 boondoggle

Our investment in wat e r softeners was a boondoggle.

我们在水软化器上的投资打了水漂。

Our investment in wat er softeners was a boondoggle.

我们在水软化器上的投资打了水漂。

Is "broadband for all" a recipe for recovery, or a boondoggle?

&全民宽带&是成功，还是徒劳？

The worst are pesky vendors who come up with their monthly deal of inventory they couldn't sell to anyone else, packaged with a boondoggle trip for two.

最糟糕的媒体代理，每月的工作成果都是些即使附带不值一提的短程旅行之类的优惠、别人也都不要的销售线索。

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。

He built the "airport for no one"—a boondoggle that made his commute to Washington, DC, a lot easier but was otherwise a huge waste of money.

他还建了一座&没人用的机场&，但这座耗资不菲的无用之物却将他的仕途轻轻松松推向了华盛顿，仕途平坦的同时，造成的资金浪费也是巨大的。

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。

That's the logic that led the Carter administration to create the Synthetic Fuels Corporation, a $3 billion boondoggle that never produced a gallon of useable fuel.

这种逻辑促使卡特政府成立了合成燃料公司，一家30亿美元建起来的废物，从来没有生产国一加仑可用的燃料。

The worst are pesky vendors who come up with their monthly deal of inventory they couldn't sell to anyone else, packaged with a boondoggle trip for two.

所以我要求媒体代理认真工作，而不是弄点看上去挺光鲜但却没有任何价值的垃圾来敷衍我。

The whole approach could turn out to be a boondoggle. But the American adviser, who showed me around, had moved his young family to Beijing because he believed the company was sincere about learning to meet the likes of Carrefour on their own terms.

在萧条的背景下，所有这些努力很可能最后都是白费力气，但起码被请来的这位美国顾问不这么看，他已经把一家老小都接到了北京，因为他相信，中国人确实诚心诚意地想搞出中国自己的家乐福来。

Breath, muscle contraction of the buttocks; arch body, as far as possible to hold his head, right leg straight towards the ceiling (peg-leg knee in order to avoid muscle tension).

呼气，收缩臀部肌肉；拱起身体，尽量抬起头来，右腿伸直朝向天花板（膝微屈，以避免肌肉紧张）。

The cost of moving grain food products was unchanged from May, but year over year are up 8%.

粮食产品的运输费用与5月份相比没有变化，但却比去年同期高8％。