He had a lucrative sinecure with a big law firm.他曾在一家大律师事务所有份收入丰厚的闲职。There was a plenitude of whispers about how he'd gotten that sinecure.关于他如何获得那挂名职务一事,人们议论纷纷。She found him an exalted sinecure as a Fellow of the Library of Congress.她给他找了一个级别很高的闲职:国会图书馆研究员。