sinecure

释义

n.

闲职；挂名职位

网络

挂名差事；闲差事；挂名职务

词形变化

复数：sinecures

在例句中理解 5 句

1. He has lots of plans for a turnround but already his old hot seat at Boeing, where he was chief executive, must be looking like a sinecure.

   穆拉利拥有大量扭转困境的方案，但与现在相比，他过去在波音（Boeing）如坐针毡的首席执行官职位，肯定算是薪酬丰厚的闲职了。

2. 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。

3. I wasn't the typical Latin-American writer living in Europe thanks to some government sinecure.

   我不是身居政府里的闲职而生活在欧洲的典型的拉丁美洲作家。

4. sinecure: a job or position in which someone is paid to do little or no work.

   解说：工作清闲但报酬优厚的职位，挂名的好差事。

5. She found him an exalted sinecure as a Fellow of the Library of Congress.

   她给他找了一个级别很高的闲职：国会图书馆研究员。