featherbed

['feðəbed]

v.任闲职,实施限产超雇,以政府津贴资助
adj.限产超雇的

词形变化：

动词过去式: featherbedded | 动词过去分词: featherbedded | 动词现在分词: featherbedding | 动词第三人称单数: featherbeds |

vi.

1. 要求资方限产超雇

2. 担任闲职

vt.

1. 同意限产超雇

2. 以政府津贴资助

a.

要求限产超雇的

featherbed

词形变化：

动词过去式: featherbedded | 动词过去分词: featherbedded | 动词现在分词: featherbedding | 动词第三人称单数: featherbeds |

featherbed['feðəbed]adj.1.■[美国英语]要求(或同意)限产超雇的；因限产超雇而产生的vt.1.■[美国英语]使实施限产超雇2.■娇养，溺爱3.■用政府津贴资助：to featherbed the farmer用政府津贴资助农民vi.1.■[美国英语]实施限产超雇变形vt.featherbeddedfeatherbedding

featherbed

名词 featherbed:

a mattress stuffed with feathers

同义词：feather bed

动词 featherbed:

treat with excessive indulgence

同义词：pamper, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge

hire more workers than are necessary

featherbed

■but their doctrine, which preceded them, lingers on.It is reflected in hundreds of make-work rules and featherbed practices by labor unions;

但是在他们之前早已存在的信条却阴魂不散，并且以“制造工作机会准则”、“限产超雇准则”等名义反映在不计其数的工会行动中。

■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“限产超雇”的种种做法。

■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。这些做法的起因，以及公众容忍它们的原因，跟害怕机器一样，是源于同一个根本的谬误。

■5. 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.

圣诞节前夜里刮了一场暴风雪，我蜷缩在羽毛褥床取暖，心理暗暗盼着自己能得到哪怕一点点的圣诞节礼物。

■God becomes man becomes fish becomes barnacle goose becomes featherbed mountain

天主变成人，人变成鱼，鱼变成黑雁，黑雁又变成堆积如山的羽绒褥垫。

■featherbed soldier

干轻活的士兵

■to featherbed the farmer

用政府津贴资助农民

■featherbed rules.

限产超雇法