He stood for a rotten borough and he took on a sinecure in government himself.

他代表着一个有名无实的衰败选区，并在政府中为自己谋取了一个领干薪的闲差。

He condemned parliamentary sinecures and argued that too many ministers were in the pocket of the Crown.

他谴责议会中的尸位素餐者，并争辩说太多的大臣来自王的口袋名单。

In African countries such as Ghana, Nigeria and Uganda teaching is all too often a sinecure , not a vocation.

在非洲家如加纳，尼日利亚和乌干达，老师只一个闲职，非真正的工作。

And Prigozhin will go to some sort of weird sinecure in exile in Belarus.

里戈任将在白俄罗斯流亡期间从事某种奇怪的闲职。

Life was not a task to him, but a sinecure.

生活对他来说不任， 闲差。

If he accepts, we can bamboozle him with sinecures; if he refuses, we can apprehend him.

如果他接受了，我们就可以用闲职来忽悠他；如果他拒绝，我们可以逮捕他。

So far as work went I enjoyed a complete sinecure; I had nothing to do but to walk about the valley, to eat, and to sleep.

就工作言，我享有完全的闲职。我无事可做，只能在山谷里走来走去，吃饭睡觉。

The most sacred trusts are then considered as sinecures, because they were procured by interest, and only sought to enable a man to keep GOOD COMPANY.

最神圣的托拉斯被认为闲职， 因为它们通过利息获得的， 只为了让一个能够保持良好的伙伴关系。

By thus uniting their fortunes, living on good terms, and profiting by sinecures, the two families might occupy the hotel d'Aubrion with an income of over a hundred thousand francs.

通过这样统一他们的财富，过上良好的生活，并从中获利，这两个家庭可能会以超过十万法郎的收入占据奥布里昂酒店。

Most of them were in business, it was true, and several were converting the heathen of China or America to a nebulous protestantism; but a few, he found, were working constructively at jobs that were neither sinecures nor routines.

的确，他们中的大多数都在做生意，还有一些正在将中或美的异教徒转变为模糊的新教；但他发现，有少数在既非闲职也非例行公事的工作中发挥建设性作用。