pay

pay

英[peɪ]美[peɪ]

v.付款，偿还，盈利，划算，付代价；

n.薪水；

第三人称单数：pays;

过去式：paid;

过去分词：paid;

现在分词：paying;

例句

If he starts talking about another job, that means he wants a rise in pay.如果他开始考虑另找工作, 那就意味着他想加薪。

You pay her a few compliments and she immediately rises above herself.你只要稍许赞扬她几句, 她即会沾沾自喜。

We reckon your pay with our adding machine.我们用加算器来计算你的薪金。

We'll pay them out for the trick they played on us.他们捉弄了我们, 我们要对他们进行报复。

I could hardly expect him to pay out a large sum of money for such a drawing.我很难指望他为这样一幅画付出一大笔钱。

When one buys something on hire purchase, one has to pay out each month.如果按照分期付款购买东西, 得每月付款。

He had some repairs to pay for over and above the cost of the car.除了车款之外, 他还要支付一些修理费。

“You can pay.”“Like hell I will.”“你可以给钱的。”“我才不给呢。”

The company had to dip into a reserve fund to pay for all the new equipment.公司不得不动用储备金来支付全部新设备的费用。

Every club member must pay up his membership money before the end of the season.每一位俱乐部成员必须在赛季结束以前缴清会费。

英语六级真题

The most recent one took place last week in Washington, D.C.Students join a team through their schools, which provide a volunteer coach and pay a nominal fee to send students to regional and state competitions.

Students use forums to chat, play games, and solve problems together at no cost, or they can pay a few hundred dollars to take courses with trained teachers.

Setting the right carbon price will therefore efficiently align the costs paid by carbon users with the true social opportunity cost of using carbon.

Funding agencies note that data paid for with public money should be public information, and the scientific community is recognizing that data can now be shared digitally in ways that were not possible before.

We, of course, need to pay attention to youngsters who are filled with discontent and hostility, but we should not allow these extreme cases to distort our view of most young people.

The fundamental fix—reshaping how care is delivered and how doctors are paid in a wasteful, abnormal system—is likely to be achieved only through trial and error and incremental ( ' , 渐进的) gains.

That is far less likely to happen if Congress also adopts strong pay-go rules requiring that any increase in payments to providers be offset by new taxes or budget cuts.

Teaching is so important that it should be like other professions, with high pay and good working conditions but few job protections for bottom performers.

Teachers need to be much better paid to attract the best college graduates to the nation's worst schools.

Mr.Wilhelm said the excess of labels made it difficult for businesses and consumers to know which labels they should pay attention to.

He echoes Pay Drechsel's opinion on the issue.

Enrollees would have to pay more money for many services out of their own pockets, and that would encourage them to think twice about whether an expensive or redundant test was worth it.

Demand higher pay for teachers.

Congress needs to find the courage to allow Medicare to pay preferentially for treatments proven to be superior.

But Pay Drechsel, an environmental scientist, argues that the social and economic benefits of using untreated human waste to grow food outweigh the health risks.

Yet it still pays to go to university.

Workplace norms pressure employees to overwork, deterring them from taking paid time off.

They hardly pay anything for the problems they have caused.

There's a lot for students to complain about: the repayment threshold for paying back loans will be frozen for five years, meaning that lower-paid graduates have to start repaying their loans; and maintenance grants have been replaced by loans, meaning that students from poorer backgrounds face higher debt than those with wealthier parents.

The overwhelming majority of employees attribute their stress mainly to low pay and an excessive workload.

The U.S. trails far behind every wealthy nation and many developing ones that have family-friendly work policies including paid parental leave, paid sick days and breast-feeding support, according to a 2007 study.

The U.S. is also the only advanced economy that does not guarantee workers paid vacation time, and it's one of only two countries in the world that does not offer guaranteed paid maternity leave.

If going to university doesn't work out, students pay very little--if any--of their tuition fees back: you only start repaying when you are earning ￡21,000 a year.

Full-time employees who do have paid vacation days only use half of them on average.

But even when employees are given paid time off, workplace norms and expectations that pressure them to overwork often prevent them from taking it.

She’s figured out that it will take her another three years to pay it off at 30 dollars a month.

Pay more attention to the effectiveness of their treatments.

Laura Hamilton, the author of a study on parents who pay for college, will argue in a forthcoming book that college administrations arc overly concerned with the social and athletic activities of their students.

In their evolution, humans have learned to pay attention to the most urgent issues instead of long-term concerns.

In Paying for the Party, Hamilton describes what she calls the party pathway, which eases many students through college, helped along by various clubs that send students into the party scene and a host of easier majors.

Evolution has programmed humans to pay most attention to issues that will have an immediate impact.

Education has not paid enough attention to major environmental issues.

But more recently, companies have begun to plan more affordable After being dogged by technical delays for years, Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic's founder, had recently suggested that a SpaceShipTwo craft would carry its first paying customers as soon as February 2015.

0 GPA cut-off, making it impossible for him to continue paying for school.

Yet virtually no providers of goods or services rely on this alone, butuse paid advertising instead.

A recent study graded more than 600 internet retailers on how easy it was for consumers to shop, buy, and pay.

And the value of what the student can produce is reflected in the wage employers are willing to pay the student to produce it.

City University of New York CUNY, Rutgers University, and Indiana University were out of reach as were mississippi State and the University of Alabama, where I would have to pay out-of-state fees.

For this scheme to work, the government must provide wage subsidies to compensate for lost pay due to the shorter hours.

If going to university doesn't work out, students pay very little—if any—of their tuition fees back: you only start repaying when you are earning £21,000 a year.

It literally is like something in a dream to remember what it's like to actually be able to go out and put in a day's work and receive a day's pay.

Joseph says his products are priced 10-20% above organic versions, but depending on the product chosen, compared to non-organic conventional yogurt, consumers could pay a premium of 30-50% or more for grass-fed.

Laura Hamilton, the author of a study on parents who pay for college, will argue in a forthcoming book that college administrations are overly concerned with the social and athletic activities of their students.

Or we can allow students both to choose their majors and pay for their education themselves.

Smart basketball players or skilled musicians need to pay close attention to the demands of high performance, to the challenges to be overcome.

Students join a team through their schools, which provide a volunteer coach and pay a nominal fee to send students to regional and state competitions.

The actual question we debate is who should pay for people to go to college.

They're open to the tactical possibilities and the musical challenges precisely because they're freed, through skill, from the need to pay attention to the low-level details of how to play.

This may end up costing you opportunities for promotions or pay raises.

Unless you were prepared to pay, they were increasingly difficult to obtain for any but the most severely disabled.

You don't have to pay for your education.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

VERB

付；支付；偿还

When you pay an amount of money to someone, you give it to them because you are buying something from them or because you owe it to them. When you pay something such as a bill or a debt, you pay the amount that you owe.

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VERB

给…付工资；给…付酬

When you are paid, you get your wages or salary from your employer.

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N-UNCOUNT

工资；薪水

Your pay is the money that you get from your employer as wages or salary.

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VERB

（为获得帮助或服务）付钱给

If you are paid to do something, someone gives you some money so that you will help them or perform some service for them.

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VERB

（*府或机构通过提高价格、税率等使某人）为…买单

If a government or organization makes someone pay for something, it makes them responsible for providing the money for it, for example by increasing prices or taxes.

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VERB

（工作、交易或投资）有…报酬，产生…利润

If a job, deal, or investment pays a particular amount, it brings you that amount of money.

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VERB

（工作、交易或投资）有收益，盈利

If a job, deal, or investment pays, it brings you a profit or earns you some money.

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VERB

存（钱）；储蓄

When you pay money into a bank account, you put the money in the account.

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VERB

有利；有好处；值得

If a course of action pays, it results in some advantage or benefit for you.

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VERB

付出代价；受到惩罚

If you pay for something that you do or have, you suffer as a result of it.

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VERB

（与某些名词连用，表示施予某物或做某事）进行（访问）/给予（注意）

You use pay with some nouns, for example in the expressions pay a visit and pay attention, to indicate that something is given or done.

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ADJ

（电视节目）付费的，收费的

Pay television consists of programmes and channels which are not part of a public broadcasting system, and for which people have to pay.

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PHRASE

赚回成本

If something that you buy or invest in pays for itself after a period of time, the money you gain from it, or save because you have it, is greater than the amount you originally spent or invested.

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PHRASE

受雇于；被…收买

If you say that someone is in the pay of a certain person or group, you disapprove of the fact that they are being paid by and are working for that person or group, often secretly or illegally.

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PHRASE

自食其力；养活自己

If you pay your way, you have or earn enough money to pay for what you need, without needing other people to give or lend you money.

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英汉词典释义

vt. & vi.

付给; 付款

有利可图; (对…)有利, (对…)值得

vt.

给予

n.

工资

英英词典释义

Noun

1. something that remunerates;

Verb

1. give money, usually in exchange for goods or services;

2. convey, as of a compliment, regards, attention, etc.; bestow;

3. do or give something to somebody in return;

4. bear (a cost or penalty), in recompense for some action;

5. cancel or discharge a debt;

6. bring in;

7. render;

8. be worth it;

9. dedicate;

10. discharge or settle;

11. make a compensation for;

行业词典

法律： 报酬；给付；