wage

名词 wage:

1. something that remunerates
   同义词：pay, earnings, remuneration, salary

动词 wage:

1. carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns)
   同义词：engage

1. How can I keep a family on such a miserable wage?
   我怎么能靠这麽可怜的工资养家？
2. I can hardly exist on the wage I'm getting; there is no money for luxuries.
   我靠我挣的工资简直难以　口，根本无钱享受。
3. How do they manage to subsist on such a low wage?
   他们这点工资怎么糊口？
4. We've decided to negotiate with the employers about our wage claim.
   我们决定就工资问题与雇主谈判。
5. A postman's wages are 180 per week.
   邮递员的工资为每周180英镑。
6. In our family both my husband and I are wage earners.
   在我们家里，丈夫和我都挣工资。
7. The government has pledged itself to wage a war against poverty and disease.
   政府发誓要进行一场消灭贫穷和疾病的斗争。
8. The government has introduced a wage freeze.
   政府已宣布要冻结工资。

wage

n.（名词）
Payment for labor or services to a worker, especially remuneration on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis or by the piece.
工资：为劳动或服务伏给一个工人的报酬，尤指按小时、天数或周给或按工作量给
wages The portion of the national product that represents the aggregate paid for all contributing labor and services as distinguished from the portion retained by management or reinvested in capital goods.
wages 工资总额：国民生产总值的一部分，表示付给所有有价值的工作或服务的报酬总额，以用来区分于因管理或再投入到货币资本的那部分国民生产总值
Often wages (used with a sing. or pl. verb)A fitting return; a recompense:
常作 wages （与单数或复数动词连用）报酬：合适的报酬；酬劳：
例句：
the wages of sin.
罪恶的报应

v.tr.（及物动词）
waged,wag.ing,wag.es
To engage in (a war or campaign, for example).
从事于（如战争或战役）

来源：
Middle English
中古英语
from Old North French
源自 古法国北方方言
[of Germanic origin]
[日耳曼语源]