boondoggles

英

美 [ˌbunˈdɑgəlz]

n. 毫无意义的工作(或事情); 浪费时间金钱的工作(或事情)
boondoggle的复数

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 a boondoggle when 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。

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But in Boluo, government vows of safe disposal of garbage have been met with disbelief from residents fearful of toxins and sometimes convinced that the plants are corrupt boondoggles.
然而博罗的居民不相信政府无害化处理垃圾的誓言，他们担心有毒物质，而且有时认为修建处理厂是腐败的蠢事。
The US Department of Justice legal filings said GSK made use of "cash payments disguised as consulting fees, expensive meals, weekend boondoggles and lavish entertainment".
美国司法部（usdepartmentofjustice）提交的法庭文件称，葛兰素史克“将现金贿赂伪装成咨询费、高价餐费、周末休闲活动开支和奢侈娱乐活动开支”。
Bureaucracies seem to take on a life of their own and may engender much frustration when trying to negotiate the boondoggles of red tape and molasses.
官僚似乎走出一条自己的生命，并可能产生太大的挫折时，试图谈判的繁文缛节和糖蜜的外部同行评审有助于。
The new marketing campaign only wasted money on boondoggles eventually.
新的市场活动最终只是把钱浪费在了无谓。