n.挂名职务；闲差事；<古> 领干薪的牧师职位
详尽释义
n.(名词)
闲职，挂名职位，挂名头衔
<古>领干薪的牧师职
轻闲差使
adj.(形容词)
工作清闲的，有闲职的
This is hardly a [not a, no] sinecure.
这哪里是 [不是] 闲差事((很忙))。
Sinecure---A job or position requiring little work but usually providing some income. N.
工作清闲而报酬丰厚的职位。
His stable services were merely a sinecure, and consisted simply in a daily care and inspection.
他在马厩里的工作是个轻闲差使，每天只要去照料照料巡视一番。
Just three years later, he gave up what could have been a lifetime sinecure to enroll in the St.Petersburg Music Conservatory .
仅仅3年之后，他放弃了一个可能成为终身铁饭碗的职位，而进入了圣彼得音乐学院就读。
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NikolaiPatrushev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。
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