wages, pay, salary
这组词都有“薪水”“工资”的意思。它们的区别在于：
1.pay是普通用词,不可数,意思是“工资,薪水”,指工作所得到的酬金,也可特指发给军人的薪饷,强调付了钱,不如salary和wages正式。
2.salary一般指脑力劳动者的月薪或年俸。例如:
He lived on his salary.他靠薪水生活。
The company pays good salary.这个公司的薪金高。
His regular salary doesn't come to much, but he gets bonuses too.他的固定薪水并不高,但他还有奖金。
3.wages多指体力劳动者按天或按周领取的工钱。例如:
Her wages are one hundred dollars a week.她的工资为每周100美元。
He takes his wages home to his wife every Friday.他每星期五把工资带回家交给妻子。
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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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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Workers requested a raise in the wage.
工人们要求提高工资.
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The wage disagreement is under arbitration.
工资纠纷正在仲裁中.
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Although unemployment rose last month, this is unlikely to dampen down wage demands.
虽然上个月失业人数上升，但这不太可能减弱工人要求加薪的意愿。
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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.
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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We bargained a new wage increase.
我们达成了增加工资的新协议.
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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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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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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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He's discontented with his wage.
他不满于自己的工资.
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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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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。
——柯林斯例句
They will react with hostility to the price rises and calls for equivalent wage increases are bound to be heard.
他们将会强烈反对价格上涨，同时肯定会要求相应地增加工资。
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Some workers are legally employed, but the majority work unofficially with neither health nor wage security.
虽然一些工人是合法雇用的，但大部分工人都是非正式的，没有医疗及工资保障。
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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。
柯林斯例句
They work long hours in order to take home a fat wage packet.
为了多赚点儿工资，他们加班加点地工作。
——柯林斯例句
The report shows the Swiss are among the world's top wage earners.
报告显示瑞士人的工资收入位列世界最高水平。
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Their wage increases would be offset by higher prices.
他们增加的工资会被物价上涨所抵消.
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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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The union demands a 7％ wage hike.
工会要求提高工资7%.
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He gets a daily wage.
他拿日薪.
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Wage differences in the two areas are widening.
两个地区的工资差距正在拉大。
柯林斯例句
The manager amerced him of a day's wage.
经理罚他一天的工资.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
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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During the Second World War, industrial wage differentials in Britain widened.
第二次世界大战期间，英国的劳工工资级差进一步拉大了。
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