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boon : something good or very helpful:
Spring rains are a boon to local farmers.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gop-tax-bill-boon-oil-200000504.html
GOP Tax Bill Is A Boon For Oil And Gas
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/boom
[boom as noun]
boom : a period of sudden economic growth:
Somehow farmers have survived the booms and busts of the past 50 years.
boom : pole
In television and movie making, a boom is a long, movable pole that has a microphone (= device that records sound) or camera on one end.
boom: a deep, loud sound,
What you heard was the boom of a rocket.
[boom as verb]
[ I/T ] to make a deep, loud sound:
[ I ] A voice boomed through the microphone.
[ I ] to grow suddenly, to experience a period of sudden economic growth:
At that time, Alaska was booming.
//=== baby boom, baby boomer
https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/嬰兒潮
嬰兒潮（baby boom），指的是在某一時期及特定地區，出生率大幅度提昇的現象。
歷史上有記載的幾次嬰兒潮，通常是起因於有振奮人心的因素，像是農作物豐收、打贏戰爭及贏得體育競賽等。
但也有因為迷信的因素。
在英文，形容嬰兒潮時期出生的人為「baby boomer」。
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boon
loon
spoon
noon
soon
saloon
balloon
boondoggle
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boondoggle
noun [ C ] US /ˈbunˌdɑɡ·əl, -ˌdɔ·ɡəl/
an expensive program that is a waste of money, esp. one using public money:
Voters say they are fed up with such boondoggles.
an unnecessary and expensive piece of work, especially one that is paid for by the public
（尤指由公眾支付費用的）耗資巨大而無意義的工作
The senator called the new highways proposal "a fraud and a boondoggle that the taxpayer should not tolerate."
boondoggle 讓我想到蚊子館
--> http://blog.xuite.net/kojen.nanyang/blog/275349084
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pink elephant：酒後幻覺
white elephant：大而無當之物,如現今流行的蚊子館
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http://englishnews.ftv.com.tw/read.aspx?sno=A3DDAA66EA93E19AD1DE51525BFC9346
“mosquito halls”
大巨蛋目前比較像是 mothball, 希望以後不會變成 “mosquito halls”
--> https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english-chinese-traditional/mothball
mothball
verb [ T ] UK /ˈmɒθ.bɔːl/ US /ˈmɑːθ.bɑːl/
to stop work on an idea, plan, or job, but leaving it in such a way that you can start on it again at some point in the future
封存，保藏；把…束之高閣
Six coal mines were mothballed in the hope that they could be reopened in a time of better economic conditions.
六個煤礦暫被封閉，希望在經濟形勢轉好的時候可以重開。
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the problem of “mosquito halls,”or publicly constructed facilities that quickly fall into disuse.
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這裡是雲林的台西鄉，若非事先聯繫，有當地人帶路，外地人很難找到這條通往雲林離島式基礎工業區的唯一陸橋。
[[丁文志理事長 雲林五港社區發展協會]]
“我們這一塊是隸屬台西鄉五港村的行政區域，面積是283公頃，大概91年、92年就完工了，完工以後就放著”
抽海砂、填海造陸，花了台灣人民200多億的血汗錢，就像被丟在海裡，一丟 20年。
[[丁文志 理事長 雲林五港社區發展協會]]
“起初是台塑，他們要用台塑煉鋼廠，後來是國光石化也說要在這邊建廠，結果兩個都沒有，台塑煉鋼現在到越南了，國光現在到彰化”
太陽能板，一棟棟整齊的科技建築，這裡是離花蓮市需要一個多小時的鳳林環保科技園區，2009年完工，花了8億6千多萬公帑，現在宛如一座空城。
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//=== https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/loon
loon
noun [ C ] /luːn/ /luːn/
a large North American bird that eats fish
noun [ C ] (CRAZY PERSON)
informal a person who is crazy, silly, or strange
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