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基本英英词源Thesaurus例句
n.童子军系的皮绳;无用的事³³vi.做无用的事复数boondoggles名词boondoggler过去分词boondoggled现在分词boondoggling三单boondoggles
Noun:
work of little or no value done merely to look busy
Verb:
do useless, wasteful, or trivial workboondoggle，原指一种类似中国结一样的小装饰品。现词义来自于1935年美国罗斯福新政时，政府投入几百万美元打着丰富失业人民业余生活的旗号开办boondoggle workshop。as in.deception
同义词 betrayal,deceit,disinformation,duplicity,falsehood,fraud,hypocrisy,lying,mendacity,treachery,trickery,untruthartifice,beguilement,blarney,cheat,circumvention,cozenage,craftiness,cunning,deceitfulness,deceptiveness,dissimulation,double-dealing,dupery,equivocation,flimflam,fraudulence,guile,hokum,imposition,insincerity,juggling,legerdemain,pretense,prevarication,sophism,treason,trickiness,trumperydefraudation
反义词 faithfulness,forthrightness,honesty,loyalty,sincerity,truth,opennessfrankness,honor,trustworthiness,truthfulness,uprightnessas in.dally
同义词 drag,idle,lag,linger,loiter,lollygag,procrastinate,putter,tarry,trailfool around,fool with,fritter away,hang about,horse around,jerk off,play around,play games with,put off,trifle with,waste time,while away
反义词 complete,finish,go,hurry,leave,rushhasten,push
dalliedverb dawdle, delay
carried on,cosseted,fool around,frivoled,frolicked,gambolled,had a fling,led on,played around,rollicked,romped,tampered,wantoned,was insincere with
dallyverb dawdle, delay
drag,fool around,fool with,fritter away,hang about,horse around,idle,jerk off,lag,linger,loiter,lollygag,play around,play games with,procrastinate,put off,putter,tarry,trail,trifle with,waste time,while away
deceptionnoun trick
bilk,bluff,boondoggle,catch,cheat,chicane,con,con game,confidence game,cover-up,crock,decoy,device,dodge,fallacy,fast one,fast shuffle,feint,fib,fraud,gimmick,hoax,hogwash,hustle,illusion,imposture,jive,lie,malarkey,mare's-nest,pretext,ride,ruse,scam,sham,shift,shuck,snare,snow job,stall,sting,story,stratagem,subterfuge,swindle,trap,trick,whitewash,wile,wrinkle China’s huge investment in high-speed rail may be instructive to the United States, whether for proponents of federal rail investments or critics who consider bullet trains a boondoggle.
无论是对那些赞成政府投资铁路的支持者，还是持高铁无用论的批评者而言，中国在高铁上的巨大投入都能让美国得到启发。 yeeyan
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。 yeeyan
“ 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。 i21st
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。 yeeyan
By the time the corruption- ridden boondoggle was completed in1904, Alexander's son, Nicholas II, was technically bankrupt.
当这项耗费巨大而又腐败深重的铁路最终于1904年建成时，亚历山大的儿子、沙皇尼古拉二世从技术层面上分析已属于破产。 yeeyan
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。 sznews
Is“ broadband for all” a recipe for recovery, or a boondoggle?
“全民宽带”是成功，还是徒劳？ ecocn
It's also likely that the whole thing will be a boondoggle.
也有可能整个行动会是一种舍本逐末的做法。 blog.sina.com.cn
Most other biologists deemed the idea either practically impossible or a financial boondoggle.
大部分其他生物学家不是认为这个想法不切实际，就是认为它浪费钱财。 yeeyan
Windows Vista had more than its share of problems, most notably the device driver boondoggle.
Windows Vista存在的问题实在不少，最突出的问题是设备驱动繁琐。 yeeyan |