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sinecure n.閑職,掛名差事,〔尤指〕領干薪的牧師職。 hardl...

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He took away salaries from a number of men who held obvious sinecures , saying there was nothing meaner , nay more unfeeling , than the man who nibbled at the revenues of the state without giving any service in return ; for the same reason , also , he reduced the salary of mesomedes , the lyric poet 他撤銷了許多明顯的閑差的薪水,說這些既無意義,又無感情,而這些人蠶食政府的收入,卻不作出任何服務;因為相同的理由,也減少了蒙梭密德斯,抒情詩人的薪水。

He had lined up four sinecures that i knew of . 據我所知,他起碼有四個掛名頭銜。