N-SING If you say that someone is using pork barrel politics, you mean that they are spending a lot of government money on a local project in order to win the votes of the people who live in that area. 分肥拨款; 为赢得某地区选民的选票而在该地方工程上投入大笔政府拨款 [美国英语] [usu N n]
Pork-barrel politicians hand out rents to win votes and influence people.
搞分肥拨款的政客为赢得选票、影响民情而发放房租补贴。
Once a selling point for lawmakers, congressionally directed spending – otherwise known as earmarks or “pork barrel” projects – is becoming a liability for many incumbents in Campaign 2010.
曾经是立法者的卖点,国会直拨开支,另一种说法是计划开支或者分肥计划,现在成为许多在任议员2010竞选的责任。
Pork-barrel politicians hand out rents to win votes and influence people.
搞分肥拨款的政客为赢得选票、影响民情而发放房租补贴。
Jim DeMint, a senator from South Carolina, wants his colleagues to adopt a voluntary ban on earmarks, a form of pork-barrel spending particularly reviled by fiscal hawks.
来自南卡罗来纳州的参议员吉姆戴明特想要他的同事能够针对专款专用有所自律,这里的专款是指一种被财政鹰派人物大加漫骂的地方建设经费。
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