boondoggle的意思

boondoggle

英式音标['bundɑɡl]
美式英标['buːndɒg(ə)l]

基本解释

n. 手工品；细小而无用的事；劳动力和生产工具不经济的利用

vi. 做无聊的工作

boondoggle 细小而无用的事，面子工程

boondoggle，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。

boondoggle (n.): 1935, American English, of uncertain origin, popularized during the New Deal as a contemptuous word for make-work projects for the unemployed. Said to have been a pioneer word for "gadget;" it also was by 1932 a Boy Scout term for a kind of woven braid.