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-]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• n.工作清閑但報酧優厚的職位，掛名的好差事

词根记忆

• secure(無慮的)中間加個in→処於無憂無慮的狀態→閑職

同根派生

英汉例句

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，多德發現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

词组短语

短語

• sinecure e 閑職
• hold a sinecure 掛名領乾薪;領乾薪
• Sinecure Consisted Simply 輕閑
• hold a sinecure job 屍位
• to hold a sinecure 屍祿

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.