wage

[weidʒ]

n.工资, 报酬
v.开展, 从事, 进行(战争、运动)

例句与用法：

How can I keep a family on such a miserable wage?

我怎么能靠这少得可怜的工资养家？

I can hardly exist on the wage I'm getting; there is no money for luxuries.

我靠我挣的工资简直难以　口，根本无钱享受。

How do they manage to subsist on such a low wage?

他们这点工资怎么糊口？

We've decided to negotiate with the employers about our wage claim.

我们决定就工资问题与雇主谈判。

A postman's wages are 180 per week.

邮递员的工资为每周180英镑。

In our family both my husband and I are wage earners.

在我们家里，丈夫和我都挣工资。

The government has pledged itself to wage a war against poverty and disease.

政府发誓要进行一场消灭贫穷和疾病的斗争。

The government has introduced a wage freeze.

政府已宣布要冻结工资。

词形变化：

动词过去式: waged | 动词过去分词: waged | 动词现在分词: waging | 动词第三人称单数: wages |

详细释义：

n.

1. 薪水; 报酬[P1]

His wages are three hundred dollars a week.

他的工资为每周三百美元。

2. 【古】(罪恶的)代价, 报应[P]

vt.

进行, 从事[(+on/against)]

England and Spain waged war for many years.

英国和西班牙曾打过多年的战争。

vi.

在开展中, 在进行中

短语词组：

living wage

1. 够维持生活的工资

We have a right to a living wage.

我们有权得到足够维持生活的工资。