GRE

sinecure单词基本解析：

n.工作清闲但报酬优厚的职位，挂名的好差事
n.挂名职务,闲差事,<古> 领干薪的牧师职位n. <古> 领干薪的牧师职位
n.工作清闲但报酬优厚的职位，挂名的好差事；

sinecure变化用词：

复数:sinecures;
名词: sinecurism |
复数：sinecures

sinecure英英释义：

Noun

1. a benefice to which no spiritual or pastoral duties are attached

2. an office that involves minimal duties

名词 sinecure:

a benefice to which no spiritual or pastoral duties are attached

an office that involves minimal dutiessinecure[ 'saini,kjuə, 'sinu- ]n.a benefice to which no spiritual or pastoral duties are attachedan office that involves minimal duties

sinecure中文词源：

sinecure 挂名，闲职 来自拉丁短语 beneficium sine cura,不用履行牧师职责的圣俸职务，来自 beneficium,圣俸，即 benefice,sine,无，没有，cura,关心，关切，即 cure.后词义通俗化为挂名，闲职，吃空饷。

sinecure用法和例句：

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.

辞典例句

This is hardly a [ not a, no ] sinecure.

这哪里是 [ 不是 ] 闲差事((很忙)).

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This is a [ not a, no ] sinecure.

这哪里是 [ 不是 ] 闲差事((很忙)).

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sinecure

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。

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。

He even had a job, a sinecure, more highly-paid than his old job had been

他甚至还有一个工作，一个挂名差使，比他原来的工作的待遇要好多了。

hold a sinecure job

尸位

Hold a sinecure job and eat white rice

尸位素餐

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。

salary drawn for a sinecure

干薪

hardly a sinecure

繁忙的差事

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。

This is hardly a [not a, no] sinecure.

这哪里是 [不是] 闲差事((很忙))。

hold a sinecure

领干薪

sinecure office

领干薪的闲职

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