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-]
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基本解释
- n.工作清闲但报酬优厚的职位，挂名的好差事
词根记忆
- secure(无虑的)中间加个in→处于无忧无虑的状态→闲职
英汉例句
- 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.
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
双语例句
权威例句
词组短语
- sinecure e 闲职
- hold a sinecure 挂名领干薪;领干薪
- Sinecure Consisted Simply 轻闲
- hold a sinecure job 尸位
- to hold a sinecure 尸禄
短语
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.