He even had a job, a sinecure, more highly-paid than his old job had been.(他甚至還有一個工作，一個掛名差使，比他原來的工作的待遇要好多了。)

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.(聯邦安全局-即KGB的接替部門-的領導NikolaiPatrushev被放置到安全委員會的一個閑職上，替代他的是一個年輕的副職。)

His stable services were merely a sinecure, and consisted simply in a daily care and inspection.(他在馬廄里的工作是個輕閑差使，每天只要去照料照料巡視一番。)

This is hardly a [not a, no] sinecure.(這哪里是[不是]閑差事((很忙))。)

She found him an exalted sinecure as a Fellow of the Library of Congress.(她給他找了一個級別很高的閑職：國會圖書館研究員。)

There are uncomfortable lessons here. First, success is not a sinecure.(現在來總結一下諾基亞的教訓：第一，成功不能靠吃老本。)