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sinecure

美['saɪnɪ.kjʊr],英['sɪnɪ.kjʊə(r)],

释义

n. 闲职;挂名职位; 网络释义: 挂名差事;闲差事;挂名职务;

例句

He has lots of plans for a turnround but already his old hot seat at Boeing, where he was chief executive, must be looking like a sinecure.
穆拉利拥有大量扭转困境的方案,但与现在相比,他过去在波音(Boeing)如坐针毡的首席执行官职位,肯定算是薪酬丰厚的闲职了。
Given the 80-hour weeks he puts in, the hospital might look like a sinecure.
放弃了数周以来每周80小时的投入,医院的工作就像一份闲职。
I wasn't the typical Latin-American writer living in Europe thanks to some government sinecure.
我不是身居政府里的闲职而生活在欧洲的典型的拉丁美洲作家。
Sinecure: a job or position in which someone is paid to do little or no work.
解说:工作清闲但报酬优厚的职位,挂名的好差事。

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