He stood for a rotten borough and he took on a sinecure in government himself.
他代表着一有名无实的衰败选区,并在政府中为自己谋取了一薪的闲差。
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,他们中的大多数人都在做生意,还有一些人正在将中国或美国的异教徒转变为模糊的新教;但他发现,有少数人在既非闲职也非例行公事的工中发挥建设性用。