wages
wages — 名詞
1. Money given regularly by an employer to a worker for their work, most often calc
工資
按時或按日計算的工作報酬
Money given regularly by an employer to a worker for their work, most often calculated by the hour, day, or week and paid weekly.
Yuki was happy when his wages went up after his first year at the factory.
Yuki 在工廠工作滿一年後，他的工資調漲了，讓他很開心。
collocation: wages go up / wages increase
The hotel pays its cleaning staff wages of fifteen dollars for each hour they work.
那家飯店付給清潔人員的工資是每小時十五美元。
pattern: wages of [amount] per [time unit]
After taxes were taken out, Diego's weekly wages barely covered his rent and food.
扣完稅之後，Diego 每週的工資幾乎不夠付房租和買食物。
Fatima saved almost all of her wages from the summer job to buy a used car.
Fatima 把暑期打工所得的大部分工資存起來，買了一輛二手車。
Many workers in the area are demanding higher wages and better working conditions.
該地區許多工人正在要求提高工資並改善工作條件。
用法筆記
Wages is almost always used in its plural form. The singular wage can appear before a noun (wage increase, wage cut) or in fixed phrases like minimum wage. Unlike salary, which is given as a fixed yearly amount and paid monthly, wages change depending on how many hours or days a person works.
常見錯誤
2. The deserved result of someone's actions or behaviour, whether good or bad — oft
代價
行為帶來的應有結果
The deserved result of someone's actions or behaviour, whether good or bad — often used in a biblical or literary expression.
A documentary showed a ruined fishing village as the wages of a mining company's bribes to local officials.
一部紀錄片呈現了一座漁村的廢墟，正是一家礦業公司賄賂地方官員應得的代價。
fixed phrase: the wages of [corruption/greed]
Elena saw her promotion as the wages of years of hard work and dedication to the company.
Elena 認為自己的升遷是多年來努力工作與奉獻應得的代價。
pattern: the wages of [effort/sacrifice]
In the novel, the main character finally receives the wages of his greed and dishonesty.
小說中的主角最後為自己的貪婪與不誠實付出了應有的代價。
Amara considered the team's championship title the just wages of months of intense training.
Amara 認為球隊的冠軍頭銜是數月密集訓練應得的回報。
- reward
positive connotation only, more commonly used
- consequence
neutral in tone, not limited to literary use
- recompense
formal word for something given in return
用法筆記
This sense is now mostly limited to fixed or literary expressions, especially the biblical phrase the wages of sin. It is used with a singular verb when the wages of... acts as the subject, just like the original Bible verse.
wages — 動詞
1. To take part in and continue a war, battle, or organised activity over a period
發動；進行
持續進行戰爭或大型活動
To take part in and continue a war, battle, or organised activity over a period of time in order to achieve a goal.
The two countries have been waging a border war for more than a decade.
這兩個國家在邊境地區發動戰爭已經超過十年了。
collocation: wage a war
Local community groups are waging a campaign to stop the new highway from cutting through the park.
當地社區團體正在發起一項運動，阻止新高速公路穿越公園。
collocation: wage a campaign
The government has been waging a long struggle against corruption in the police force.
政府多年來一直在與警界內的貪腐進行漫長的抗爭。
Haruki's team waged a successful advertising campaign that doubled the company's sales in six months.
Haruki 的團隊發動了一次成功的廣告宣傳，讓公司在六個月內業績翻倍。
Doctors and nurses are waging a fight against the spread of the disease in rural villages.
醫生和護理人員正在偏遠村莊中與疾病的擴散進行對抗。
文法句型
wage + war/campaign/battle/fight/struggle
用法筆記
The object of this verb is almost always a war, campaign, battle, fight, or struggle. It is not used for small, casual, or personal activities — you would not wage a chess match or wage a conversation.