sinecure
音標發(fā)音
- 英式音標 [?s?n.?.kj??r]
- 美式音標 [?sa?.n?.kj?r]
- 國際音標 ['saini,kju?, 'sinu-]
- 英式發(fā)音
- 美式發(fā)音
基本解釋
- n.工作清閑但報酧優(yōu)厚的職位，掛名的好差事
詞根記憶
- secure(無慮的)中間加個in→処於無憂無慮的狀態(tài)→閑職
英漢例句
- 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。 - 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
雙語例句
權(quán)威例句
詞組短語
- 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
短語
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.