sinecure

常見例句

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(fā)現(xiàn)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(lián)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。

權威例句

• 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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