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词汇 pork barrel
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pork barrel. Government appropriations used to supply funds for local improvements that are designed to ingratiate congressmen with their constituents have been called pork bar- rel since shortly before the Civil War. Before that the expression simply meant the total contributions to a congressman’s cam- paign fund. In this case pork is synonymous with fat, which has always signified abundance or plenty.
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