英汉词典

wage 基本解释

• vi. 进行；发动；从事
• n. 工资；代价；报偿
• vt. 进行；开展

wage 词态变化

wage 中文词源

来自PIE*wadh, 承诺，誓言，词源同wed,engage。原指承诺对别人的服务的报酬，引申义工资，原仅限于手工和机械劳动所得，后词义通用化。同时，用做词义承诺参战，发动战争，后词义通用化指开展或发动某运动。

wage 英文词源

wage

wage: [14] Wage and gage (as in engage) are doublets – that is to say, they come from the same ultimate source, but have drifted apart over the centuries. The source in this case was prehistoric Germanic *wathjam ‘pledge’, which is also the ancestor of English wedding. It was borrowed into Old French as gage, which is where English gets gage from; but its Anglo- Norman form was wage, which accounts for English wage. Gage, engage, and the derivative wager [14] all preserve to some degree the original notion of ‘giving a pledge or security’, but wage has moved on via ‘payment’ to ‘payment for work done’.
=> engage, gage, wager, wedding

wage (n.)

c. 1300, "a payment for services rendered, reward, just deserts;" mid-14c., "salary paid to a provider of service," from Anglo-French and Old North French wage (Old French gage) "pledge, pay, reward," from Frankish *wadja- or another Germanic source (compare Old English wedd "pledge, agreement, covenant," Gothic wadi "pledge"), from Proto-Germanic *wadi- (see wed (v.)).

Also from mid-14c., "a pledge, guarantee, surety" (usually in plural), and (c. 1400) "a promise or pledge to meet in battle." The "payment for service" sense by late 14c. extended to allotments of money paid at regular intervals for continuous or repeated service. Traditionally in English wages were payment for manual or mechanical labor and somewhat distinguished from salary or fee. Modern French cognate gages (plural) means "wages of a domestic," one of a range of French "pay" words distinguished by class, such as traitement (university professor), paye, salaire (workman), solde (soldier), récompense, prix. The Old English word was lean, related to loan and representing the usual Germanic word (Gothic laun, Dutch loon, German lohn). Wage-earner attested from 1871.

wage (v.)

c. 1300, "give (something) as surety, deposit as a pledge," from Old North French wagier "to pledge" (Old French gagier, "to pledge, guarantee, promise; bet, wager, pay," Modern French gager), from wage (see wage (n.)). Meaning "to carry on, engage in" (of war, etc.) is attested from mid-15c., probably from earlier sense of "to offer as a gage of battle, agree to engage in combat" (mid-14c.). Related: Waged; waging.

wage 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"

wage 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。

wage 双语例句

1. A wage freeze was imposed on all staff earlier this month.

这个月早些时候，所有员工的工资都被冻结了。

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2. Women have yet to achieve wage or occupational parity in many fields.

女性在很多领域还没能争取到薪金、职位方面的平等。

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3. The union had sought a wage increase and a shorter work week.

工会寻求增加工资，缩短每周工作时间。

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4. In addition to my weekly wage, I got a lot of tips.

除了每周的薪水外，我还能得到不少小费。

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5. Many farmers have to depend on subsidies to make a living wage.

许多农民的基本生活工资要靠补贴来维持。

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wage 实用场景例句

wages of £200 a week

一星期200英镑的工资

牛津词典

a weekly wage of £200

周薪200英镑

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wage cuts

减薪

牛津词典

a wage increase of 3%

3%的加薪

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(British English)a wage rise of 3%

3%的加薪

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wage demands/claims/settlements

工资要求；工资和解协议

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Wages are paid on Fridays.

每星期五发工资。

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There are extra benefits for people on low wages .

低薪者有额外补助。

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The staff have agreed to a voluntary wage freeze (= a situation in which wages are not increased for a time) .

全体员工已经同意自愿冻结工资。

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The rebels have waged a guerrilla war since 2001.

反叛者自2001年以来一直进行游击战争。

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He alleged that a press campaign was being waged against him.

他声称有人正在对他发起新闻攻势。

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His wages have gone up...

他涨工资了。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

This may end efforts to set a minimum wage well above the poverty line.

这可能会使将最低工资定得远高于贫困线的努力告吹。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...the three factions that had been waging a civil war...

发动内战的三个派别

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They waged a price war.

他们打起了价格战。

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The real culprIt'should be sanctioned and the real culprit is him. He provoked it all.

真的犯错的人应该被处罚,而那个人便是他, 他挑起这一切.

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Wage increases were eaten up by the rise in the cost of living.

工资的增加全给生活费用的上涨抵消掉了.

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The manager amerced him of a day's wage.

经理罚他一天的工资.

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The wage disagreement is under arbitration.

工资纠纷正在仲裁中.

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They agreed on the broad outlines of a wage settlement.

他们就工资解决的办法达成框架协议.

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He's discontented with his wage.

他不满于自己的工资.

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The government intends to institute court action against the firm which has disobeyed the wage controls.

政府准备对该公司提起诉讼,指责其违反工资管理法规.

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Wage control is the cornerstone of the government's economic policy.

控制工资是政府经济政策的基础.

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The government's new law on wage and price control is diluted with exceptions.

政府关于工资和控制物价的新规定被其中的那些例外情况削弱了.

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He gets a daily wage.

他拿日薪.

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We bargained a new wage increase.

我们达成了增加工资的新协议.

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That would upset the wage differential.

这样做会打乱工资级别制度.

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Employers will use this agreement as a test in dealing with future wage claims.

雇主们将这份协议当作处理未来加薪要求的判断准绳.

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Several hundreds of office workers in that company walked off their jobs in a wage dispute.

那家公司的几百名雇员因工资纠纷而进行罢工.

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The union demands a 7％ wage hike.

工会要求提高工资7%.

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