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Neither wanted to be seen as favouring either tax increases or corporate boondoggles .

两人都不想被视作赞成增税或增加企业不必要的开支。

His proposed climate-change bill , whose chances of becoming law before the mid-terms look slim , would be much improved if boondoggles were removed from it .

他提出的有关气候变化的议案在中期选举前成为法律的希望十分渺茫，但如果去掉一些繁琐无用的东西，这份议案通过的可能性会大大增加。

Spend any time in brazil and you will get used to hearing the impending football world cup ( in 2014 ) and olympics ( in 2016 ) used as justification for all manner of boondoggles .

只要在巴西呆上一段时间，你就会听见各种无理的要求并习以为常，这都是为即将到来2014年的世界杯和2016年的奥运会辩护。

Others suggest it is an indicator of a growing stock of white elephants-government-driven real estate and infrastructure boondoggles encouraged to prevent the economy from collapsing as export growth slows .

另外一些人认为这是负担不断增长的指标政府导向的房地产和基础设施建设努力阻止了因为出口放缓导致的经济崩溃。

Indeed , they are often blatant boondoggles : steve ellis of taxpayers for common sense points for example to hefty sums spent on the polynesian voyaging society of hawaii and " beaver management " in north carolina , in addition to the improved shuttle buses of western kentucky university .

确实，这些专款常有浪费资金之嫌：“taxpayersforcommonsense”这家监督组织的steveellis距离说，巨额开支用在夏威夷波利尼西亚航海会，和北卡罗来纳州“河狸管理”，还有改善西肯塔基大学的校园巴士上。