- 1閒職；領乾薪的職位
A sinecure is a paid job in which you do not have to do much real work. Someone still draws a salary, and maybe a title, while the hard tasks sit with other people. Newspapers use it for a comfortable political or company post. It is a cool, slightly old-fashioned, judging word: you almost never call your own job a sinecure unless you are joking. Though actually, it began in the church. Latin sine cura means “without care.” A priest might hold a post that came with money sine cura — without the care of souls, so without the duty of looking after a parish. The “care” was that spiritual duty, not “being careful.” The church sense ; the everyday sense, pay without the burden, stayed. It has nothing to do with the maths word sine.
組成From Ecclesiastical Latin sine cūrā, literally “without care,” shortened from beneficium sine cūrā (“a church post without the cure of souls”). Latin sine (“without”) + cūrā (“care, charge”).
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
sinecurenoun/ˈsaɪ.nɪˌkjʊə/
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A position that requires little to no work, or easy work, but still gives an ample payment; a cushy job.
- Miss Briggs was not formally dismissed, but her place as companion was a sinecure and a derision […]
- A lucrative sinecure in the Excise was bestowed on Ferguson.
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historicalAn ecclesiastical benefice without the care of souls.
sinecureadj/ˈsaɪ.nɪˌkjʊə/
- 1
Requiring no work for an ample reward.
- By the act of union (1800), the offices of Irish secretary, a sinecure post, and lord lieutenant's secretary were combined.
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Having the appearance of functionality without being of any actual use or purpose.
- The old man hastily pulled down his spectacles from their sinecure office on his forehead, and looked at her with an expression of most angry amazement.
sinecureverb/ˈsaɪ.nɪˌkjʊə/
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To put or place in a sinecure.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。