查询词典 sinecures

In Central Asia the most successful companies are sinecures of nepotism.

而在中亚，最成功的公司往往是靠裙带关系。

But the law is not all that it seems. The nationwide centres it created, grumble both senior police and racketeers, provide lucrative sinecures for retired police officers.

但依法建立的这一组织事实上不是说的那么简单，这些遍布全国的反黑中心，有权检举高级警官及其他非法敛财的行为，而同时它们也为退休的警官们提供了收入颇丰的闲职。

The nationwide centres it created, grumble both senior police and racketeers, provide lucrative sinecures for retired police officers.

这让人想起了&天下り&--官员空降，即为政府高官提供其职能领域内的高收入闲职作为退休前的奖励。

Those who have succeeded in procuring this admirable materialism have the joy of feeling themselves irresponsible, and of thinking that they can devour everything without uneasiness,--places, sinecures, dignities, power, whether well or ill acquired, lucrative recantations, useful treacheries, savory capitulations of conscience,--and that they shall enter the tomb with their digestion accomplished.

获得了这种宝贵的唯物主义的人，也就可以有那种觉得自己不用负责的快感，并认为自己可以心安理得地霸占一切，地盘、恩俸、荣誉、正当得来或暖昧得来的权力，可以为金钱背弃信义，为功利出卖朋友，昧尽天良也还可以自鸣得意。等到酒肉消化完了，便往坟墓里一钻了事。那多么舒服。我这些话并不是为您说的，元老先生。

Those who have succeeded in procuring this admirable materialism have the joy of feeling themselves irresponsible, and of thinking that they can devour everything without uneasiness,--places, sinecures, dignities, power, whether well or ill acquired, lucrative recantations, useful treacheries, savory capitulations of conscience,--and that they shall enter the tomb with their digestion accomplished.

那多么舒服。我这些话并不是为您说的，元老先生。

He had lined up four sinecures that I knew of.

据我所知，他起码有四个挂名头衔。

We chatted about this and that, and he said how much he was enjoying his assortment of sinecures – non-exec

我们聊了很多，他谈到自己是多么喜爱现在各种各样的闲差——担任非执行董事，应邀演讲等等。

We chatted about this and that, and he said how much he was enjoying his assortment of sinecures non-executive directorships, speaking engagement s and so on.

我们聊了很多，他谈到自己是多么喜爱现在各种各样的闲差——担任非执行董事，应邀演讲等等。

The bureaucracy, for its part, has begun to prepare for change, by using the annual personnel changes during the summer to send senior officials that are close to the LDP to sinecures in Japan and at international organisations overseas.

政府机构已经准备通过每年夏天的人事变动进行改革，并将会为那些同自民党关系密切的高级官员提供工作清闲，待遇优厚的职位，这些职位来自日本国内和海外的国际组织。

After confessing to these things they had been pardoned, reinstated in the Party, and given posts which were in fact sinecures but which sounded important

交代了这些，他们便得到宽大处理，恢复了党籍，委派了职位——那工作表面上重要得很，其实纯属挂名而已。

As she looked at Warrington's manly face, and dark, melancholy eyes, she had settled in her mind that he must have been the victim of an unhappy attachment.

每逢看到沃林顿那刚毅的脸，那乌黑、忧郁的眼睛，她便会相信，他一定作过不幸的爱情的受害者。

Maybe they'll disappear into a pothole.

也许他们将在壶穴里消失