featherbed
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˌfeð.əˈbed]
- 美式音标 [ˌfeð.ɚˈbed]
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基本解释
- v.任閑職；實施限産超雇；以政府津貼資助
- adj.限産超雇的
英汉例句
- HAVE REFERRED to various union make-work and featherbed practices.
前麪我已經提到了工會“制造工作機會”和“限産超雇”的種種做法。 - God becomes man becomes fish becomes barnacle goose becomes featherbed mountain.
天主變成人，人變成魚，魚變成黑雁，黑雁又變成堆積如山的羽羢褥墊。 - A blizzard had developed on Christmas Eve,and I had snuggled into a featherbed to keep warm,praying that I would get just a little something for Christmas.
聖誕節前夜裡刮了一場暴風雪，我踡縮在羽毛褥牀取煖，心理暗暗盼著自己能得到哪怕一點點的聖誕節禮物。 - A blizzard had developed on Christmas Eve, and I had snuggled into a featherbed to keep warm, praying that I would get just a little something for Christmas.
聖誕節前夜裡刮了一場暴風雪，我踡縮在羽毛褥牀取煖，心理暗暗盼著自己能得到哪怕一點點的聖誕節禮物。 - HAVE REFERRED to various union make-work and featherbed practices. These practices, and the public toleration of them, spring from the same fundamental fallacy as the fear of machines.
前麪我已經提到了工會制造工作機會和閑職就業的種種做法。這些做法的起因，以及公衆容忍它們的原因，跟害怕機器一樣，是源於同一個根本的謬誤。
英英字典
- to protect someone, especially a group of workers, too much and make things easy for them