Featherbedding will certainly increase unit costs and, in the general case, prices too . 一般情況下,超額雇工肯定將增加單位成本,并將提高價(jià)格。
This federal agency was shut down for featherbedding 聯(lián)邦政府機(jī)關(guān)對閑職人員作了削減。
Fell asleep then . after gencree dinner that was when we drove home the featherbed mountain 發(fā)生在格倫克里的宴會結(jié)束之后,我們驅(qū)車回家去,翻過羽毛山。
Their government featherbeds its industries so that they can sell their products much more cheaply than we can 他們的政府大力扶植其工業(yè),以至使他們的產(chǎn)品賣得比我們便宜得多。
Coming home it was a gorgeous winter s night on the featherbed mountain . bloom and chris callinan were on one side of the car and i was with the wife on the other 回家的路上翻過羽床山,好個出色的冬夜啊,布盧姆和克里斯卡利南坐在馬車的一邊,我和他太太坐另一邊。
英文解釋
the practice (usually by a labor union) of requiring an employer to hire more workers than are required
百科解釋
Featherbedding is the practice of hiring more workers than are needed to perform a given job, or to adopt work procedures which appear pointless, complex and time-consuming merely to employ additional workers.The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, 3rd ed.