查询词典 boondoggle

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。

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。

Once maligned as a $2 billion boondoggle that couldn't operate in the rain, the bat-winged B-2 Stealth Bomber is flying high these days, having proven its mettle in two wars.

状若蝙蝠的B-2隐形轰炸机曾一度被人中伤为无法在雨中执行任务的价值20亿美元的废铜烂铁，由于在两次战争中展示了威力。这些天来它一直高高翱翔。

And the administration is reviving FutureGen, a pilot project to burn coal and produce electricity while capturing and storing the carbon; the Bush administration had abandoned it, and many see it as a boondoggle for big coal and a sop to electorally crucial coal states.

本届政府还打算重启未来能源计划，这本是一个太空项目，可以在燃煤发电的同时捕获并储存释放的二氧化碳，布什政府当时放弃了该项目，因为很多人认为这一项目对于那些煤炭资源大省以及电力资源紧缺的市州而言只是小菜一碟，起不了大作用。

But the shocking thing about Haarp isn't that it's a boondoggle (it's actually pretty worthwhile) or that it was spawned by a military-industrial- petrochemical -political complex (a hallowed government tradition).

但Haarp计划令人震惊之处不在于它像是一个&打水漂投资&（Haarp实际上物有所值），也不在于Haarp需要军工、石化、政治的多重参与（神圣政府传统（这里应该是指美国政府合作的传统——译者注））。

Many economists, consumer advocates, environmental experts and tax groups have been critical of corn ethanol programs as a boondoggle that benefits agribusiness conglomerates more than small farmers. Those complaints have intensified recently as corn prices have risen sharply in tandem with oil prices and corn normally used for food stock has been diverted to ethanol production.

很多经济学家，为消费者说话的人士，环保专家和税收组织都对玉米乙醇项目持批评态度，认为它实际只对农业巨头有利，对小农场主是没有益处的，最近随着粮价跟随油价一起上涨，这些批评之声更加严厉，因为很多玉米本来应该是产粮的，结果被用来生产乙醇了。

Unless most subsidies for renewables are phased out once a cap-and-trade system is in place, says Paul Bledsoe, a former adviser on energy to the Clinton administration, they risk creating a boondoggle akin to the proliferation of incentives for corn ethanol.

克林顿政府时期的一名能源顾问 Paul Bledsoe 表示，除非在限额交易体系实行之时，可再生能源获得的补贴也逐步消除，否则后果将会与猛增玉米乙醇刺激措施的结果相似，都是在做浪费时间金钱的无用功。

Unless most subsidies for renewables are phased out once a cap-and-trade system is in place, says Paul Bledsoe, a former adviser on energy to the Clinton administration, they risk creating a boondoggle akin to the proliferation of incentives for corn ethanol.

Paul Bledsoe表示，除非在限额交易体系实行之时，可再生能源获得的补贴也逐步消除，否则后果将会与猛增玉米乙醇刺激措施的结果相似，都是在做浪费时间金钱的无用功。

It was the Boy Scouts of America who claimed credit for coining the word, to refer to the plaited leather lanyards that they made and wore around their necks.

在成为贬义词之前，boondoggle只是一个中性词汇，指的一种工艺。是美国的童子军制造了这个词汇，指的是他们用皮做成的围脖。

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％。