1.闲职,挂名差事;领干薪的牧师职
1.a job that pays you a regular salary but for which you do not need to work hard
1.He has lots of plans for a turnround but already his old hot seat at Boeing, where he was chief executive, must be looking like a sinecure.
穆拉利拥有大量扭转困境的方案，但与现在相比，他过去在波音（Boeing）如坐针毡的首席执行官职位，肯定算是薪酬丰厚的闲职了。
2.Given the 80-hour weeks he puts in, the hospital might look like a sinecure.
放弃了数周以来每周80小时的投入，医院的工作就像一份闲职。
3.I wasn't the typical Latin-American writer living in Europe thanks to some government sinecure.
我不是身居政府里的闲职而生活在欧洲的典型的拉丁美洲作家。
4.sinecure: a job or position in which someone is paid to do little or no work.
解说：工作清闲但报酬优厚的职位，挂名的好差事。