wage
名词 n.
动词 v.
英文释义
名词 n.
-
An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour.
— Before her promotion, her wages were 20% less.
动词 v.
-
To wager, bet.
— My life I never held but as a pawn / To wage against thine enemies
-
To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.
— I fear the power of Percy is too weak / To wage an instant trial with the King.
-
To employ for wages; to hire.
— Thenne said Arthur I wille goo with yow / Nay said the kynges ye shalle not at this tyme / for ye haue moche to doo yet in these landes / therfore we wille departe / and with the grete goodes that we haue goten in these landes by youre yeftes we shalle wage good knyghtes & withstande the kynge Claudas malyce
-
To conduct or carry out (a war or other contest).
— pond'ring which of all his Sons was fit / To Reign, and wage immortal War with Wit
-
To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
— Thou that doest liue in later times, must wage / Thy workes for wealth, and life for gold engage.
- To give security for the performance of.
词汇关系
衍生词
词源
词源 1
From Middle English wage, from Anglo-Norman wage, from Old Northern French wage, a northern variant of Old French gauge, guage (whence modern French gage), Medieval Latin wadium, from Frankish *waddī (cognate with Old English wedd), from Proto-Germanic *wadją (“pledge”), from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰ- (“to pledge, redeem a pledge”). Akin to Old Norse veðja (“to pledge”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌳𐌹 (wadi), Dutch wedde. Compare also the doublet gage. More at wed.
词源 2
From Middle English wagen (“to pledge”), from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French wagier, a northern variant of Old French guagier (whence modern French gager), itself either from guage or from a derivative of Frankish *waddī, possibly through a Vulgar Latin intermediate *wadiō from *wadium (see the noun above). See Medieval Latin wadiō and wadium for more.
0 次浏览
数据来源: Wiktionary