• 基础释义
  • 例句
  • 四级真题
  • 六级真题
  • 柯林斯词典释义
  • 英英词典释义
例句
英语四级真题
    Parents and students who have invested heavily in higher education worry about graduates' job prospects as technological advances and changes in domestic and global markets transform professions in ways that reduce wages and cut jobs.
    出自-2014年6月阅读原文
英语六级真题
    Apparently the bus company will be laying off its employees if they can't reach an agreement on wages by midnight.
    出自-2013年12月听力原文
    According to a study by George Borjas, a Harvard economist, immigration reduced the wages of American high-school dropouts by 9% between 1980-2000.
    出自-2011年6月阅读原文
柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
  • N-COUNT
    工资;工钱
    Someone's wages are the amount of money that is regularly paid to them for the work that they do.
    例句
    His wages have gone up... 他涨工资了。 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。
  • VERB
    开展,发动(运动或战争)
    If a person, group, or country wages a campaign or a war, they start it and continue it over a period of time.
    例句
    ...the three factions that had been waging a civil war... 发动内战的三个派别 They waged a price war. 他们打起了价格战。
英英词典释义
  • Noun
    1. a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing;
    "the wages of sin is death""virtue is its own reward"