"grandparents often pamper the children" "Let's not mollycoddle our students!"
hire more workers than are necessary
例句
HAVE REFERRED to various union make-work and featherbed practices. 前面我已经提到了工会“制造工作机会”和“限产超雇”的种种做法。
God becomes man becomes fish becomes barnacle goose becomes featherbed mountain. 天主变成人，人变成鱼，鱼变成黑雁，黑雁又变成堆积如山的羽绒褥垫。
A blizzard had developed on Christmas Eve,and I had snuggled into a featherbed to keep warm,praying that I would get just a little something for Christmas. 圣诞节前夜里刮了一场暴风雪，我蜷缩在羽毛褥床取暖，心理暗暗盼着自己能得到哪怕一点点的圣诞节礼物。
A blizzard had developed on Christmas Eve, and I had snuggled into a featherbed to keep warm, praying that I would get just a little something for Christmas. 圣诞节前夜里刮了一场暴风雪，我蜷缩在羽毛褥床取暖，心理暗暗盼着自己能得到哪怕一点点的圣诞节礼物。
HAVE REFERRED to various union make-work and featherbed practices. These practices, and the public toleration of them, spring from the same fundamental fallacy as the fear of machines. 前面我已经提到了工会制造工作机会和闲职就业的种种做法。这些做法的起因，以及公众容忍它们的原因，跟害怕机器一样，是源于同一个根本的谬误。
God becomes man becomes fish becomes barnacle goose becomes featherbed mountain 天主变成人，人变成鱼，鱼变成黑雁，黑雁又变成堆积如山的羽绒褥垫。
