pork barrel

noun

1. 分肥项目，分肥拨款（议员等为争取选票而促使政府拨款给所属地区的发展项目）
   local projects that are given a lot of government money in order to win votes; the money that is used

1. N-SING 分肥拨款（指为赢得当地选民的选票而在地方工程上花费的大笔政府拨款）
   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.
   1. Pork-barrel politicians hand out rents to win votes and influence people.
      搞分肥拨款的政客为获得选票、影响民情而发放房租补贴。

1. Many refuse to accept Federal pork barrel dollars devoted to convincing them to convert to other crops.
   多数拒绝接受联邦的猪肉桶元热中于使他们信服转换到其他的农作物。
2. If the tobacco settlement is any guide, that will not stop states trying to raid the escrow fund – BP's initial payouts to Alabama, Florida and Mississippi already have a pork barrel flavour to them.
   如果说烟草协议有什么借鉴作用的话，那就是这将无法阻止各州设法劫掠赔偿基金&BP最初支付给阿拉巴马州、佛罗里达州和密西西比州的赔偿金，已经被它们拿来用做地方建设经费。
3. "Pork, what of the corn whisky Pa buried in the oak barrel under the scuppernong arbor?"
   “波克，爸埋在葡萄架下大橡木桶里的那些玉米威士忌酒怎么样了？”

noun

1. a legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents

   Synonym:    pork