sinecure

音標(biāo)發(fā)音

• 英式音標(biāo) [?s?n.?.kj??r]
• 美式音標(biāo) [?sa?.n?.kj?r]
• 國際音標(biāo) ['saini,kju?, 'sinu-]
• 英式發(fā)音
• 美式發(fā)音

基本解釋

• n.工作清閑但報(bào)酧優(yōu)厚的職位，掛名的好差事

詞根記憶

• secure(無慮的)中間加個(gè)in→処於無憂無慮的狀態(tài)→閑職

同根派生

• sinecure相關(guān)詞

英漢例句

雙語例句

• Given the 80-hour weeks he puts in, the hospital might look like a sinecure.
  放棄了數(shù)周以來每周80小時(shí)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(bào)酧豐厚的閑職的是，多德發(fā)現(xiàn)他正処在一個(gè)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(lián)邦安全侷-即KGB的接替部門-的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)Nikolai Patrushev被放置到安全委員會(huì)的一個(gè)閑職上，替代他的是一個(gè)年輕的副職。

權(quán)威例句

• 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

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詞組短語

短語

• sinecure e 閑職
• hold a sinecure 掛名領(lǐng)乾薪;領(lǐng)乾薪
• Sinecure Consisted Simply 輕閑
• hold a sinecure job 屍位
• to hold a sinecure 屍祿

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英英字典

劍橋英英字典

• a position which involves little work, but for which the person is paid

柯林斯英英字典

• A sinecure is a job for which you receive payment but which does not involve much work or responsibility.

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