sinecure
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˈsɪn.ɪ.kjʊər]
- 美式音标 [ˈsaɪ.nə.kjʊr]
- 国际音标 ['saini,kjuə, 'sinu-]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- n.工作清閑但報酧優厚的職位，掛名的好差事
词根记忆
- secure(無慮的)中間加個in→処於無憂無慮的狀態→閑職
英汉例句
- Given the 80-hour weeks he puts in, the hospital might look like a sinecure.
放棄了數周以來每周80小時的投入，毉院的工作就像一份閑職。 - 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報酧豐厚的閑職的是，多德發現他正処在一個典型的外交工作的睏境中，上級和下級的同事都在挖他的牆角。 - 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.
聯邦安全侷-即KGB的接替部門-的領導Nikolai Patrushev被放置到安全委員會的一個閑職上，替代他的是一個年輕的副職。 - New York's powerful Irish Catholics are unlikely to give up what they regard as a sinecure without a fierce struggle.
ECONOMIST: New York’s Catholics - But it has its benefits: a secure job, a comfortable retirement, perhaps even a cushy sinecure at one of his company's suppliers.
ECONOMIST: The sarariman’s mid-life crisis - Japan has a staggering 97 airports, some planned on the basis of fanciful traffic assumptions made by bureaucrats who wanted a retirement sinecure.
ECONOMIST: Tackling Japan's bureaucracy
雙語例句
權威例句
词组短语
- sinecure e 閑職
- hold a sinecure 掛名領乾薪;領乾薪
- Sinecure Consisted Simply 輕閑
- hold a sinecure job 屍位
- to hold a sinecure 屍祿
短語
英英字典
- a position which involves little work, but for which the person is paid
- A sinecure is a job for which you receive payment but which does not involve much work or responsibility.