The new runway is a billion-dollar boondoggle.
这条新跑道是一个价值十亿美元的废物。
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。
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。
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。
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。
And then there was another crazy idea of building a capital on a square of swampland thatseemed mainly to be a boondoggle for wealthy land speculators at the time.
此外，还有一个疯狂的搬迁首都例子，就是在一片沼泽地上建立一个都城，这在当时看来简直就是有钱的土地投机商的异想天开。
And then there was another crazy idea of building a capital on a square of swampland thatseemed mainly to be a boondoggle for wealthy land speculators at the time.
此外，还有一个疯狂的搬迁首都例子，就是在一片沼泽地上建立一个都城，这在当时看来简直就是有钱的土地投机商的异想天开。
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