英汉词典

pay 基本解释

• vt. 支付，付；偿还，补偿；给予
• vi. 付款；偿还
• n. 工资，薪水；付款；报答
• adj. 收费的；需付费的

pay 词态变化

pay 中文词源

来自古法语paier,支付，来自拉丁语pacare,平息，安抚，使满意，来自pacis,和平，平静，词源同peace,pacify.

pay 英文词源

pay

pay: [12] Etymologically, to pay someone is to ‘quieten them down by giving them the money they are owed’. For the word is closely related to English peace. It comes via Old French payer from Latin pācāre ‘pacify’, a derivative of pāx ‘peace’. The notion of the irate creditor needing to be appeased by payment led to the verb being used in medieval Latin for ‘pay’. The original sense ‘pacify, please’ actually survived into English (‘Well he weened with this tiding for to pay David the king’, Cursor Mundi 1300), but by the beginning of the 16th century it had virtually died out, leaving ‘give money’ in sole possession.
=> pact, peace

pay (v.)

c. 1200, "to appease, pacify, satisfy," from Old French paier "to pay, pay up" (12c., Modern French payer), from Latin pacare "to please, pacify, satisfy" (in Medieval Latin especially "satisfy a creditor"), literally "make peaceful," from pax (genitive pacis) "peace" (see peace). Meaning "to give what is due for goods or services" arose in Medieval Latin and was attested in English by early 13c.; sense of "please, pacify" died out in English by 1500. Sense of "suffer, endure" (a punishment, etc.) is first recorded late 14c. Related: Paid; paying.

pay (n.)

c. 1300, "satisfaction, liking, reward," from pay (v.), or else from Old French paie "payment, recompense," from paier. Meaning "money given for labor or services, wages" is from late 14c.

pay 词组搭配

pay 英文释义

1. something that remunerates;

"wages were paid by check"

"he wasted his pay on drink"

"they saved a quarter of all their earnings"

pay 同义词解析

earnings, allowance, income, salary, wage, pay, fee

这些名词都可表示"工资，收入"之意。

earnings： 多指通过劳动或投资等手段所得到的收入。

allowance： 指收入中的补贴部分。

income与earnings含义很相近，但前者强调总收入。

salary： 指按年定下，按月或星期平均给予的报酬，指脑力劳动者的薪水。

wage： 多用复数形式，指按小时、日或星期的报酬，通常指体力劳动者的工资。

pay： 是个通用词，可取代salary与wage.

fee： 指提供某种服务收取的固定费用。

pay 双语例句

1. You have to pay your outstanding bill before joining the scheme.

在参加该项目之前必须结清余账。

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2. If they value these data, let them pay for them.

他们要是看重这些数据，就让他们出钱买。

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3. You can pay to be upgraded to a business class seat.

你可以付费升级到商务舱。

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4. I'll go home and pay an overdue visit to my mother.

我将回家看望母亲，其实我早该回去了。

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5. There is no provision for funding performance-related pay rises.

没有为与业绩挂钩的加薪预作资金准备。

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pay 实用场景例句

I'll pay for the tickets.

我来买票。

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Are you paying in cash or by credit card ?

您付现金还是用信用卡？

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Her parents paid for her to go to Canada.

她父母出钱送她去加拿大。

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Accommodation is free — all you pay for is breakfast and dinner...

住宿免费——你只需付早餐和正餐的钱。

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We paid £35 for each ticket...

我们每张票付了35英镑。

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The lawyer was paid a huge salary...

那位律师薪酬很高。

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I get paid monthly...

我按月领工资。

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...their complaints about their pay and conditions.

他们对薪水和工作条件的不满

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...the workers' demand for a twenty per cent pay rise.

工人要求加薪20%

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Students were paid substantial sums of money to do nothing all day but lie in bed...

学生们得到了一大笔钱，而所要做的就是整天躺在床上什么也不做。

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If you help me, I'll pay you anything.

如果你帮我，你要多少钱我都给。

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...a legally binding international treaty that establishes who must pay for environmental damage...

规定谁该为环境破坏买单的有法律约束力的国际条约

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If you don't subsidize ballet and opera, seat prices will have to go up to pay for it.

如果你不为芭蕾和歌剧提供补贴，就得提高剧场票价来为此买单。

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We're stuck in jobs that don't pay very well...

我们深陷在工资低廉的工作中。

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The account does not pay interest on a credit balance.

这个账户的贷方余额没有利息。

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There are some agencies now specialising in helping older people to find jobs which pay...

现在有些机构专门帮助年龄较大的人找有报酬的工作。

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They owned land; they made it pay.

他们拥有土地；他们让土地生钱。

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He paid £20 into his savings account...

他往自己的储蓄账户上存了20英镑。

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There is nothing more annoying than queueing when you only want to pay in a few cheques.

没有比你只想存几张支票还得排队更令人恼火的了。

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It pays to invest in protective clothing...

在防护服上投资是值得的。

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He talked of defending small nations, of ensuring that aggression does not pay.

他谈到了保卫小国家，绝不让侵略得逞。

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Britain was to pay dearly for its lack of resolve...

英国将为缺乏决心付出惨痛的代价。

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Why should I pay the penalty for somebody else's mistake?...

为什么我要代人受过？

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Do pay us a visit next time you're in Birmingham...

下次你来伯明翰一定要来看看我们。

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He felt a heavy bump, but paid no attention to it...

他觉得起了个大包，但是没有理会。

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The company has set up joint-venture pay-TV channels in Belgium, Spain, and Germany.

该公司已在比利时、西班牙和德国设立了合资付费电视频道。

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...investments in energy efficiency that would pay for themselves within five years.

将在5年内收回成本的能效投资

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He was murdered at a presidential rally by gunmen in the pay of drug traffickers.

他在一场总统竞选集会上被毒品贩子雇用的枪手谋杀了。

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I went to college anyway, as a part-time student, paying my own way...

总之我上了大学，半工半读，自食其力。

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The British film industry could not pay its way without a substantial export market.

没有广阔的出口市场，英国电影工业无以为继。

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