sinecure

常見例句

雙語(yǔ)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，醫(yī)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)酬豐厚的閑職的是，多德發(fā)現(xiàn)他正處在一個(gè)典型的外交工作的困境中，上級(jí)和下級(jí)的同事都在挖他的墻角。
• 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)邦安全局-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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