sinecure

常见例句

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。
Instead of landing the sinecure he expected, Dodd finds himself in a classic Foreign Service quandary: undercut by colleagues from above and below.
代替他心目中期待的报酬丰厚的闲职的是，多德发现他正处在一个典型的外交工作的困境中，上级和下级的同事都在挖他的墙角。
The head of the Federal Security Bureau, the KGB's successor, Nikolai Patrushev, has been pushed into a sinecure at the Security Council and replaced by a younger deputy.
联邦安全局-即KGB的接替部门-的领导Nikolai Patrushev被放置到安全委员会的一个闲职上，替代他的是一个年轻的副职。

New York's powerful Irish Catholics are unlikely to give up what they regard as a sinecure without a fierce struggle.
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But it has its benefits: a secure job, a comfortable retirement, perhaps even a cushy sinecure at one of his company's suppliers.
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Japan has a staggering 97 airports, some planned on the basis of fanciful traffic assumptions made by bureaucrats who wanted a retirement sinecure.
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