make-work

英美

1. active work of little value;: "while he was waiting he filled the days with busywork"

I HAVE REFERRED to various union make - work and featherbed practices.: 前面我已经提到了工会制造工作机会和闲职就业的种种做法.

Emergency spending is funding a huge number of make - work projects.: 紧急援助制造了大量为工作岗位而生的非必要项目.

All that said, are circumstances in which make - work schemes might make sense.: 尽管如此, 在有些情况下,创造就业的机制也可能是合理的.

I worry that mainstream Keynesian macroeconomics is little more than fancy camouflage for make - work bias.: 我担心主流凯恩斯主义宏观经济学不过是“造作工作成见”的花哨伪装.

Two chief elements make work interesting: first, the exercise of skill, and second, construction.: 两个使工作有趣的主要因素, 一是需要运用技巧, 二是有建设性.

One could go on to cite such make - work practices in many other fields.: 在其他许多领域,也都存在这种凭空“制造工作机会”的做法.

Logistics must make - work effectively. This is required by your customers and, in turn, by your company.: 物流必须使生产经营有效, 这是消费者的要求, 反过来也是公司的要求.

Responsibility 8 : Assist dept. manager to make work standard & instruction related to financial management.: 职责八:协助部门经理组织制定健全公司财务管理工作标准、办法的规程.

Responsibility 1 : Assist dept. manager to make work standard & amp ; instruction related to financial management.: 职责一: 协助部门经理组织制定健全公司财务管理工作标准、办法的规程.

make-work 帮闲工作，无意义的工作

比喻用法。

make-work: 1913 (adj.); 1937 (n.), "busy-work, activity of no value," American English, from the verbal expression to make work (see make (v.) + work (n.)).
A big fire devoured a street; "It will make work," I heard my father say; a ship was lost at sea laden with silk, and leather, and cloth; "It will make work," said my father; a reservoir broke jail, and swept the heart of the town away. "It will make work," my mother said; so all human calamities were softened blessings to me; they made "work," and work made wages, and wages made bread and potatoes, and clothes for me. ["The Radical Review," Chicago, Sept. 15, 1883]

1. For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?: 我们活着是为了什么？不就是给邻居当笑柄，再反过来笑他们。

2. Sometimes things have to fall apart to make way for better things.: 有时候要到达谷底，才会慢慢变好。

3. Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.: 人生就应该是快乐的，要抓住每一天，孩子们，让你们的生活变得非凡起来。

4. These large institutions make — and change—the rules to suit themselves.: 这些大机构总是随意制定规定，而且说变就变。