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Related topics: Business, Wages
pay1 /peɪ/ ●●● S1 W1 verb (past tensepst and past participlepp paid /peɪd/)  
1  give money 付钱 [intransitiveI, transitiveT]PAY FOR to give someone money for something you buy or for a service 付款；付钱给〔某人〕
 How would you like to pay?
你想怎么付款？
pay for
 Mum paid for my driving lessons.
妈妈支付了我驾驶课的学费。
pay (in) cash
 You’d get a discount for paying cash.
现金付款有折扣。
pay by cheque/credit card
 Can I pay by credit card?
我可以用信用卡付款吗？
pay somebody for something
 He didn’t even offer to pay me for the ticket.
他甚至没有提出要给我买票的钱。
pay somebody to do something
 Ray paid some kids to wash the car.
雷花钱雇了一些孩子洗车。
pay somebody something
 I paid him $5 to cut the grass.
我付给他5美元叫他割草。
pay (somebody) in dollars/euros etc
 He wanted to be paid in dollars.
他想收取美元。
5 GRAMMAR 语法
The object of pay can be the person you give money to or the amount of money you give. pay 的宾语可以是支付的对象,或支付的数目
I’ll pay you in advance.
我会预先付款给你。
Do not use pay followed directly by a noun referring to the thing you are buying. Use pay (an amount of money) for something. 不要在pay后面直接跟你要买的东西,要用pay for sth 的形式 ，其中 pay 后可以跟一定数量的 钱
I’ve already paid £700.
我已经付了700英镑。
I’ll pay for the tickets.
我来买票。
I paid £100 for this jacket.
我花了100英镑买这件夹克衫。
n GRAMMAR: Patterns with pay
You pay an amount or you pay a person:
We paid $700.
Pay the delivery man.
You pay for something that you buy:
I’ll pay for the tickets.
我来买票。
✗Don’t say: I’ll pay the tickets.
You pay an amount or a person for something that you buy:
I paid £100 for this jacket.
我花了100英镑买这件夹克衫。
She paid me for the drinks.
You pay someone an amount:
They paid the owner €3,000.
You pay in a type of money:
Can I pay in euros?
You pay by a particular method:
You can pay by credit card.
我可以用信用卡付款吗？
2  bill/tax/rent 账单/税/租金 [transitiveT]BPAY FOR to pay money that you owe to a person, company etc 偿还；交付；缴纳
3  wage/salary 工资/薪金 [intransitiveI, transitiveT]BEW to give someone money for the job they do 付酬（给）
4  pay attention (to somebody/something) ATTENTIONto watch, listen to, or think about someone or something carefully （对某人/某事）注意
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pay attention (to somebody/something)• I wish you'd learn to pay attention.• Until you start paying attention, that is.• Feminists must pay attention to beliefs about male and female speech, because prejudice is often more powerful than fact.• Organizations in this environment must pay attention to flexibility, quality and asset utilization to remain competitive.• However, the candidate's response can be very revealing and interviewers should pay attention to it.• All I do is pay attention to my body.• Invariably, no one paid attention to them.• I don't think she was paying any attention to what I was saying.• And there they sat without frames, naked in the heat of high noon, waiting to be paid attention to.
5  legal cost 法律要求的费用 [transitiveT] to give money to someone because you are ordered to by a court as part of a legal case 缴纳〔法庭要求支付的费用〕
6  say STH good 说好话 [transitiveT] to say something good or polite about or to someone 表扬；问候
7  good result 好的结果 [intransitiveI]ADVANTAGE if a particular action pays, it brings a good result or advantage for you 合算，值得；有利，有好处
8  profit 利润 [intransitiveI]PROFIT if a shop or business pays, it makes a profit 〔商店或公司〕赢利，有收益
9  pay the penalty/price BAD BEHAVIOUR OR ACTIONSto experience something unpleasant because you have done something wrong, made a mistake etc 〔因犯错误等而〕吃苦头/付出代价
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pay the penalty/price• She makes plenty of money, but there's a high price to pay in terms of long hours.• He warned us that we would pay the price.• Now ordinary people will pay the price, as inflation eats further into fixed incomes and economic growth stagnates.• The customer wanted to flip a coin about paying the price for a photo of his daughter.• It started out with all the wrong assumptions about users and their habits and has paid the price in subscriber unrest.• With data filtering one pays the price of decreasing the effective library redundancy and increasing the number of hybridisations.• He had paid the price of surrendering his loyalty to Jeffries-stag-nation, nostalgia, bitterness.• But I had been caught, well and truly, and had paid the price, time and time again.
10  pay (somebody) a call/visit VISITto visit a person or place 拜访（某人）；参观（某地）
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pay (somebody) a call/visit• Latimer is living apart from people, divorced even from religious faith by his visions, when Charles Meunier pays a visit.• Another out-of-town visitor paid a call last month.• Having met his hero one evening at a small gathering, he was invited to pay a call the following week.• They were scheduled to pay a visit to another model resettlement village that morning - their last official tour.• The Marshal decided it was time to pay a visit to Headquarters.• No, Robert insisted, he could not, would not, pay a visit to such distant parts.• I was more than once surprised to see men going into those rooms, paying visits to the legless men.• Then one day, just for old times' sake, I paid a visit to Winston Street.
11  put paid to something British EnglishBrE to stop something from happening or spoil plans for something 使某事落空，破坏某事的计划
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put paid to something• This was the cause of his deafness, which put paid to a planned career in the army and in politics.• Lefkowitz, a classicist and humanities professor at Wellesley College, puts paid to Afrocentric myth-making.• It rather put paid to any idea she'd had of motoring around and discovering more of the area though.• Yet an inflamed shin almost put paid to Sampras in the first week.• People were cursing the Greenhouse Effect and swearing that it had put paid to surf in Hawaii for all time.• But Travis McKenna had put paid to that by being particularly vigilant.• But the glint of mockery in his dark eyes put paid to that fantasy.• Hitler's assault in the summer of 1940 put paid to the agitation for peace negotiations.
12  be punished 受到惩罚 [intransitiveI] to suffer or be punished for something you have done wrong 付出代价；遭受惩罚
13  pay your way PAY FORto pay for everything that you want without having to depend on anyone else for money 自食其力，经济上独立
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pay your way• But, in spite of the considerable effort and investment, it has for many years failed to pay its way.• His father is paying his way.• If education postpones such dependency it will have paid its way.• It was an important principle that these housing schemes should pay their way.• It wasn't often that men shrugged off her attempts to pay her way.• Finally, I offered to become an air hostess to pay my way, and this time, received an immediate reply.• They either pay their way, or they go.• Pfeiffer worked as a shipping clerk to pay his way through college.• Octavia Hill believed, with most other Victorians, that housing should pay its way to her, housing subsidies were unthinkable.
14  pay for itself SAVE MONEYif something you buy pays for itself, the money it saves over a period of time is as much as the product cost to buy 够本，收益与成本相当
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pay for itself• Installing solar film on the windows will pay for itself.• Fab 25 needs more strong high-volume chips to pay for itself.• Growth needs to pay for itself.• How long for his addition to pay for itself?• Life has a way of giving a comic a funny face which ultimately starts to pay for itself.• Investment in an agency, branch or subsidiary will be expected to pay for itself by generating extra business.• At the St Pierre Park it is estimated that the oven system will have paid for itself inside 18 months.• But I think I can say that each machine has paid for itself, one way or another.• Walkup's argument: Well-planned development can pay for itself, without the burden of impact fees and similar financing mechanisms.
15  the devil/hell to pay used to say that someone will be in a lot of trouble about something 大麻烦
16. pay through the nose (for something) spokenPAY FOR to pay much more for something than it is really worth （为某物）付费过高；（为某事）花费过大的代价
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pay through the nose (for something)• The message is that the government will cut a deal with any threatened industry willing to pay through the nose.• But all-seaters don't mean all-safe so why should clubs risk bankruptcy and fans pay through the nose for an ill-conceived scheme?• They run over cross-country courses and pay through the nose for it.• That doesn't mean you have to pay through the nose for the privilege of an overdraft, however.• Many people end up paying through the nose for their car insurance policies.• Catherine, paying through the nose to search for fun and relaxation.
17. somebody has paid their debt to society used to say that someone who has done something illegal has been fully punished for it 某人〔指违法者〕已受到应有的惩罚
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somebody has paid their debt to society• After 20 years in jail, Murray feels he has paid his debt to society.
18. pay court (to somebody) old-fashioned to treat someone, especially a woman, carefully and with respect, so that they will like you or help you （向某人）大献殷勤，讨好（某人）〔尤指女人〕
19. he who pays the piper calls the tune old-fashioned used to say that the person who gives the money for something can decide how it will be used 谁花钱谁说了算
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he who pays the piper calls the tune• Her benefits were therefore not so much economic as political: he who pays the piper calls the tune.
n20. pay it forward to do something nice for someone because someone else did something nice for you
→ pay lip service to at lip service, → pay your dues at due3(2)
 COLLOCATIONS – Meaning 1: to give someone money for something you buy or for a service 付款；付钱给〔某人〕
nphrases
pay £10/$50 etc
I only paid ten pounds for it.
pay (in) cash
You have to pay in cash for the tickets.
pay by cheque
I filled up with petrol and then paid by cheque.
pay by credit card
The hotel does not charge more if you pay by credit card.
pay in dollars/euros etc
American exporters want to be paid in dollars.
adverbs
pay handsomely (=pay a lot of money) 付出 （大笔款项）
nCustomers are willing to pay handsomely for anti-ageing cosmetic products.
 THESAURUS
pay to give someone money for something you are buying from them, or a service they are providing 付费；付酬
I paid a lot of money for that computer.
买那台电脑我花了不少钱。
You have to pay to park your car.
停车得付费。
meet the cost of something to pay for something for someone else, or to provide the money needed to do something 为别人[某物]付钱
We will meet the cost of your travelling expenses.
我们会支付你的差旅费。
nThe cost will be met from public donations.
foot the bill to pay for something for someone else, especially when you do not want to, or do not think that you should 为某人付钱〔尤指你不愿意或认为你不该付的情况〕
As usual, the taxpayer will have to foot the bill.
还是老样子,纳税人要为此买单了。
pick up the tab informal to pay for something 付账,买单
My company will pick up the tab for all moving costs.
我公司要为所有的搬运费买单。
fork out/shell out informal to pay a lot of money for something because you have to and not because you want to 不得不支付
He had to fork out £500 to get his car fixed.
他只得花500英镑把车修好。
nFans are having to shell out roughly $65 per seat for football games.
settle the bill to pay the bill after eating a meal, staying in a hotel etc 〔用餐、住酒店等之后〕付款,结账
She went down to the hotel lobby to settle the bill.
她下楼到酒店大堂结账。
give especially spoken to pay a particular amount of money for something – used especially when saying how much you are willing to pay 付款,支付〔尤指愿意付多少钱〕
How much will you give me for the car?
买这辆车你打算付我多少钱？
I’ll give you $50 for the lot (=for everything).
这些一起算,我给你50美元。
something is on somebody spoken used when saying that someone else will pay for your meal, drinks etc 某物由某人买单[付钱]
Order whatever you like – this is on me!
随便点,我付账。
The drinks are on the house (=the bar, restaurant etc will let you have them for free).
酒水饮料由店里请客。
nPut your money away – the drinks are on us.
n COLLOCATIONS – Meaning 3: to give someone money for the job they do 付酬（给）
phrases
pay somebody £200 a week/$100 a day etc
The cleaners are paid £5 an hour.
be paid by the hour/day/week
I was working on a building site, being paid by the hour.
adverbs
be paid weekly/monthly
Most of us get paid weekly or monthly.
well-paid
Teachers here are well-paid.
highly-paid
a highly-paid football player
badly-paid/poorly-paid
For a long time I didn’t realise how badly-paid and overworked I was.
 PHRASAL VERBS
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pay• She paid $5,000 for three nights in a hotel in New York City.• Our fixed rate savings account currently pays 6.5% interest.• Several fans tried to get in without paying.• Although both of them worked hard, they couldn't make the business pay.• If I go out for a meal with my parents, they always pay.• Please pay at the desk.• Budgeting loans are paid back by weekly deductions from benefit.• So if a premium is paid before 6 April 1993, it may be treated as having been paid during 1990/91.• Pay by credit card at least ten days before departure.• She drank far too much at the party and paid dearly for it the next day.• It showed revenue of A $ 641. 1 million and paid dividends of 32 cents a share in the year.• Miller refused to testify and paid for it by being labelled a communist.• I like your new car - how much did you pay for it?• My company paid for me to go to evening classes.• She sent money to pay for my education.• Have you paid for the tickets?• She says she wouldn't pay it.• Of course you have to pay more if you want to travel in the summer.• If you earn below $6000, you pay no income tax.• Bartending can pay pretty well.• If you pay someone to work in your house, you have to pay Social Security taxes on the wages.• He always paid the banks, and he paid all other incontestable bills on time.• Because the insurance company was paying the defendant's costs, the contest would be unequal.• Have you paid the rent yet?• I need £4.50 to pay the window cleaner.• Bribes were paid to railroad officials, of course, but other towns paid bigger ones.• Jobs in areas that use mathematical skills, such as computer programming, tend to pay well.• Did she pay you for taking care of her kids?
pay for• The Roald Dahl Foundation has provided funds to pay for a paediatric epilepsy nurse at the unit.• Let me pay for dinner this time.• This year I have paid for it.• People who sell drugs to our children should pay dearly for it.• And, unlike federal employees, they have no guarantee of pay for lost time.• And £22,730 will be used to help pay for repairs to bridge steps down to the riverside at Llangollen.• But getting health insurers to pay for the promised sessions is, in many cases, a losing struggle.• The system is overwhelmed by too many retirees and not enough younger workers to pay for their benefits.• A baseball player doesn't have to pay for transport.• I've spent the last three years in jail. I tell you, I've paid for what I did.
pay ... bill• I suppose I began my first little businesses because my parents needed me to help pay the bills.• Once home, Shulman went inside while Kantor paid the bill.• Ordinary households at the bottom of the economic food chain were left to pay the bill.• They only escaped with about twenty five pounds, money which Mrs Selman had been saving to pay bills.• As a result, the people whose financial position makes it easiest to pay bills actually get the lowest-cost credit.• See who pays the bills or does a goddamn single thing for any one of you.• The obligation on the client of a solicitor is to pay the bill presented.• She paid her bill to the efficient receptionist and left the hospital.
get paid• Did the company responsible get paid?• At the other end of the business, the actual drivers get paid a pittance out of what is left over.• The Grovel Industry, where you get paid danger money because it's so insecure.• I work for food.' I got paid for free.• That's what you get paid for, isn't it?• I told you I get paid for what I do.• Today, he is expected to get paid like one.• Coors will also get paid more for its waste beer under the new contract, he said.
pay ... fine• A top adviser to the House leadership said Gingrich is quietly canvassing members about how to pay the fine.• In concluding he promised to go to prison rather than pay his fine.• It was either off the train or pay the fine.• Under his successors, it was also exploited as a source of revenue by allowing men to pay a fine for exemption.• Cole was not asked directly whether the speaker would have to pay the fine himself.• It was like a man convicted of forgery paying his fine with a dud £50 note.
paid tribute to• Read in studio A coroner has paid tribute to a parachutist who sacrificed his own life to save a colleague.• John Motum, presenting his trophy, paid tribute to both the players and the coaches.• Friends paid tribute to Herrera's courage.• Dole paid tribute to Reagan, the two-term president who gained popularity as an anti-government politician in the 1980s.• Today their station commander paid tribute to the men.• The new Bishop also paid tribute to the Ministry of Bishop Harris over the past 14 years.• In declaring the factory open, paid tribute to the teamwork which went into the design and construction of the plant.• Fenner Brockway paid tribute to the understanding and respect for individual conscience shown by the state.• He rightly paid tribute to the West Midlands police for what they have done in this process.
It pays to• If you are willing to pay the difference in price there is usually even more choice. It pays to inquire.
pay its way• But today, guardians of the land are finding it rather more difficult to make sure the estate pays its way.• But, in spite of the considerable effort and investment, it has for many years failed to pay its way.• Government decided that the whole of the railway freight business should pay its way.• If education postpones such dependency it will have paid its way.• Britain was no longer paying its way in the world.• Octavia Hill believed, with most other Victorians, that housing should pay its way to her, housing subsidies were unthinkable.
make ... pay• This makes paying attention to a task in a busy schoolroom very difficult.• They should be made to pay for cleaning it up.• This includes a reminder that any person caught swearing must be made to pay for it.• Suddenly, I want to punish him, to make him pay for my invisibility.• How it could have been made to pay is a mystery.• Enquiries should be made from the pay kiosk or general office.• Abolish the present inheritance tax and make recipients pay on gifts above a certain band as income.
Related topics: Wages
pay2 ●●● S1 W2 noun [uncountableU]  
1  BEWmoney that you are given for doing your job 工资，薪金
2  in the pay of somebody writtenWORK FOR somebody someone who is in someone else’s pay is working for them, often secretly 〔多指秘密地〕受雇于某人的
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in the pay of somebody• Look, a lot of the police are in the pay of the big villains.• Himself is right: half of them must be in the pay of the Foley Street mob.• The study will analyse difference in the pay of individuals in the public and private sectors of the economy.• I am not in the pay of any man, Mr Advocate.• If its people called you a liberal subversive in the pay of effete capitalist Western powers it was regarded as fair comment.• Police and prosecutors, especially those in the pay of rival cartels, have been a special Arellano target.• Several cops were in the pay of Colombian drug lords.• This was the main reason the Pharisees hated the tax-collectors: they were in the pay of the Romans.
 COLLOCATIONS
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + pay
low 低的
Nurses often work long hours for relatively low pay.
护士往往工作时间长,而工资相对较低。
good 相当高的
The work was steady and the pay was pretty good.
这工作稳定,薪水相当不错。
higher/better 更高的
Workers demanded higher pay.
工人要求提高工资。
equal pay (=the same pay for the same type of work) 平等的工资
The women at the factory went on strike for equal pay.
这家工厂的女工为争取同工同酬而举行罢工。
basic pay British EnglishBrE, base pay American EnglishAmE (=not including overtime pay or bonuses) 底薪
nThe basic pay is so low you end up doing lots of overtime.
take-home pay (=after tax etc has been taken away) 税后工资
nTheir average take-home pay is just £120.
overtime pay (=for extra hours that you work) 加班工资
nTheir bosses had to approve any overtime pay.
holiday pay British EnglishBrE, vacation pay American EnglishAmE (=pay when you are on holiday) 休假工资
nServicemen and women get no holiday pay, no overtime, no weekends off.
sick pay (=pay when you are ill) 病假工资
nAs a self-employed person, you get no sick pay or benefits.
maternity pay (=pay while a woman takes time off to have a baby) 产假工资
nIf you have worked here a year, you are entitled to 3 month’s maternity pay.
redundancy pay British EnglishBrE, severance pay American EnglishAmE (=pay when there is no longer a job for you) 裁员补偿金
nWe invested our redundancy pay in a new business venture.
full pay 全额工资,全薪
nThey were immediately suspended on full pay pending a full inquiry.
half pay 半薪
nIn 1822 he retired from the army as captain on half pay.
pay + NOUN
a pay increase 加薪
Teachers will be awarded a 6% pay increase this year.
今年教师将得到6%的加薪作为奖励。
a pay rise British EnglishBrE, pay raise American EnglishAmE 加薪
If you get promoted, will you get a pay rise?
如果你升职了,会涨工资吗？
a pay cut 减薪
Staff were asked to take a 10% pay cut.
员工被要求接受10%的减薪。
a rate of pay (also a pay rate) (=the amount paid every hour, week etc) 工资率
Many workers in the catering industry are on low rates of pay.
饮食服务业的许多员工工资率较低。
a pay cheque British EnglishBrE, a paycheck American EnglishAmE (=the money you earn every week or month) 工资,薪金
nStretching your money until the next pay cheque arrives often becomes difficult.
a pay freeze (=when no one’s pay is increased) 工资冻结
nMinisters have approved a public sector pay freeze.
a pay claim British EnglishBrE (=official request for more pay) 加薪要求
nThe miners voted for strike action in support of their pay claim.
a pay dispute (=disagreement between an employer and employees about pay) 工资纠纷
nMany flights were cancelled because of a pilots’ pay dispute.
npay and conditions (=the conditions in which people work and the pay they get)
The unions are demanding better pay and conditions.
COMMON ERRORSDon’t say ‘the salary pay’. Just say the pay.
不要说 ‘the salary pay’. 而只需说 the pay.
n THESAURUS
income money that you receive from working, investments etc
families on a low income
salary the pay that professional people such as teachers or lawyers earn every year
a salary of $65,000 a year
wages the pay that someone earns every hour or every week
Her wages barely cover the rent.
bonus money added to someone’s pay, as a reward for good work or as a reward when the company does well
The company pays an attendance bonus – if you go 30 days without being late or absent, you get the bonus.
earnings all the money that you earn by working
In a good year, a bonus can double an executive’s earnings.
Examples from the Corpus
pay• The new chief executive acknowledged he would be taking a pay cut.• Most of all, they need equal pay and comparable worth.• To raise his wage without raising his marginal productivity would be to put his pay above his contribution.• Staff unions and many councillors last year attacked large pay increases for senior staff in all departments.• The worst thing about being a nurse is the low pay.• Joe's been receiving sick pay since the accident.• If entitlements are exceeded, the system will issue the relevant warning message and stop pay.• For four years running, the Government's teachers' pay committee has reported that teachers' morale has never been lower.• "What's the pay?" "About $10 an hour."• For most fast-food workers, the pay is around $5 an hour.• If women were evenly distributed across the spectrum of employment, their pay levels would be much closer to those of men.
From Longman Business Dictionary
paypay1 /peɪ/ noun [uncountableU]
the money someone receives for the job they do
She got the job, but it meant a big pay cut.
an increase in hourly pay
All I want is a full day’s work for a full day’s pay.
Thebasic pay (=the usual amount, without any extra) is so low you end up putting in overtime.
→ see also equal pay
→ back pay → callback pay → differential pay → free pay → holiday pay → maternity pay → paternity pay → performance-related pay → premium pay → reporting pay → sick pay → strike pay → take-home pay → vacation pay
paypay2 verb (past tensepst and past participlepp paid)
1[intransitiveI, transitiveT] to give a person or company money for a product or service they have supplied
How much can you afford to pay?
GM won’t pay a Christmas bonus to salaried employees next year.
pay for
Farmers desperately need hard credit to pay for seed and fertilizer.
The proportion of shoppers willing to pay more for special brands has fallen sharply.
pay somebody for something
United has agreed to pay Pan Am $290 million for its London routes.
2pay for itself if something you buy pays for itself, the money it saves over a period of time is as much as it cost
Investment in energy efficiency will pay for itself in two years due to the amount of fuel saved.
3pay its wayCOMMERCE if a machine or business activity pays its way, it makes more money than it costs to run
The SBS television channel is permitted to run limited advertising to help pay its way.
4pay through the nose (for something) informal to pay much more for something than it is really worth
Finance people have paid through the nose for consultants in recent years.
5[transitiveT]FINANCE to give a person or company money you owe them
Celutel has been trying to raise cash topay debt.
The association has set up the loan fund to help its members pay fines.
Shoppers in Newfoundlandpay 19%tax on purchases of goods and services.
6[intransitiveI, transitiveT] to give someone money for the job they do
Cane cutters here are paid about $1.50 per ton.
attempts by management not to pay employees overtime
7[transitiveT]FINANCE if investments pay a particular amount of money or rate of interest, the investors who own them will receive that amount of profit
Our Gold Account is currently paying a 5.3%interest rate.
All the current junk bonds pay cash interest.
Under the current deal, BBDO stock is paying about 10 times last year’s earnings.
8[intransitiveI]COMMERCE if a shop or business pays, it makes a profit
If the Chinese can ship this equipment 12,000 miles, how is it that British industry cannot make it pay?
→ pay somebody/something ↔ back
→ pay down something
→ pay something in
→ pay off
→ pay something ↔ out
→ pay up
Origin pay1
(1100-1200) Old French paier, from Latin pacere “to make calm or peaceful”, from pax; → PEACE
pay1 verb
→10-20

→5 GRAMMAR1 →n GRAMMAR2 →COLLOCATIONS1 →n COLLOCATIONS2
→THESAURUS1 →PHRASAL VERBS1pay2 noun →COLLOCATIONS1 →n THESAURUS1
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IELTS BNC: 227 COCA: 286
pay

noun

ADJECTIVE | ... OF PAY | VERB + PAY | PAY + NOUN | PREPOSITION | PHRASES ADJECTIVE➤hourly, monthly, weekly時薪；月薪；週薪▸➤full, half (both especially BrE) 全薪；半薪◇He has taken leave on half pay.他休半薪假了。➤high高薪▸➤low, poor低薪◇workers on low pay低薪工人➤average平均工資▸➤equal相同的工資◇equal pay for men and women男女同酬➤base, basic基本工資▸➤gross薪水總額▸➤take-home稅後實得工資◇the average take-home pay of a manual worker體力勞動者的平均稅後工資➤holiday, vacation (NAmE) 假日薪金▸➤maternity (BrE) 產假工資▸➤overtime加班工資▸➤redundancy, severance (especially NAmE) 裁員費；解雇金➤retirement (especially NAmE) 退休金▸➤sick, sickness (BrE) 病假工資▸➤back欠薪◇The workers are demanding their back pay.工人們要求領取拖欠的工資。➤merit, performance, performance-related (especially BrE) 績效工資➤bonus, incentive (NAmE) 獎金... OF PAY➤level, rate工資水平◇The job offers good rates of pay and excellent conditions.這份工作的薪水不錯，工作條件也很好。VERB + PAY➤earn, get, receive掙到／得到／收到工資▸➤give sb發給某人薪水➤cut, dock, slash減薪；扣薪◇He cut management pay by 15%.他削減了管理人員 15% 的薪酬。➤boost, double, increase, raise提高／付雙倍／增加／上漲工資◇He doubled his pay by accepting bribes.他接受賄賂，使收入翻番。PAY + NOUN➤day發薪日▸➤cheque (paycheck in NAmE) , packet (BrE) 薪水支票；工資袋◇the money in my weekly pay packet我的週薪➤package一攬子薪酬◇His pay package including bonuses was worth at least $12 million.包括獎金在內，他的全部薪酬至少達到 1,200 萬美元。➤slip, stub (NAmE) 工資單▸➤hike, increase, raise, rise (BrE) 加薪；漲薪；提薪▸➤cut減薪▸➤freeze (especially BrE) 工資凍結▸➤claim, demand (both especially BrE) 加薪要求▸➤bargaining, negotiations (both BrE) 工資談判▸➤agreement, award, deal, offer, settlement (all especially BrE) 工資協議；工資提議▸➤dispute, strike (BrE) 工資糾紛；要求加薪的罷工▸➤levels, rates工資水平◇industrial unrest over pay levels in the public sector國營部門工資水平引發的工潮➤grade, scale, structure (especially BrE) 工資等級；工資結構◇He's at the top of his company's pay scale.他在公司中領取最高等級的工資。➤equity, parity (BrE) 同工同酬；同等的薪水待遇◇Women are still decades away from achieving pay equity with men.女性要與男性同工同酬還要過好幾十年。➤differential, disparity薪資差距；工資級差PREPOSITION➤on... pay以⋯的工資方式◇Women are eligible for 18 weeks maternity leave on full pay.女性可以享有 18 個星期的全薪產假。➤with pay帶薪◇a day off with pay一個帶薪休息日➤without pay無薪◇He has been suspended without pay.他已經被停薪停職了。PHRASES➤a cut in pay, an increase in pay, a reduction in pay工資的削減／增加／減少
pay

verb

ADVERB | VERB + PAY | PREPOSITION | PHRASES ADVERB➤handsomely, well付錢慷慨；給錢很多◇She pays her workers very well.她給工人的工資很高。➤dearly (figurative) 付出高昂的代價◇He will pay dearly for what he did.他將為自己的所作所為付出高昂的代價。➤gladly欣然付錢◇I would gladly pay for the benefits such a tax would bring.這一稅種帶來種種福利，我非常樂於為此付錢。➤typically通常支付◇Clients typically pay about $2 400 per month.通常客戶每月支付 2,400 美元左右。➤up全部付清◇I had a hard time getting him to pay up.我費了很大的勁兒才讓他還清欠款。VERB + PAY➤have to, must得付款；必須付錢▸➤be able to, can, can afford to能夠支付；支付得起◇help for those who are genuinely not able to pay為那些確實無法支付費用的人提供的幫助➤be unable to, cannot, can't afford to不能夠支付；支付不起◇Protesters chanted 'Can't pay! Won't pay!'抗議者高呼“交不起！不願交！”➤expect (sb) to預計（某人）要支付⋯◇You can expect to pay £200 a night at this hotel.在這家酒店你可能要支付兩百英鎊一晚。➤be liable to (especially BrE) 有法律責任支付◇It is for the courts to decide who is liable to pay damages.應該有法庭決定誰有責任賠償損失。➤be ordered to, be required to被命令／要求支付◇The company was ordered to pay the workers £5 000 in compensation each.這家公司被勒令給予這些工人每人 5,000 英鎊的賠償金。➤agree to, be prepared to, be willing to, offer to, promise to同意支付；願意付錢；許諾付錢▸➤fail to, neglect to未能／遺漏付錢◇He was made bankrupt for failing to pay debts of over £2 million.他因未能償還超過 200 萬英鎊的債務而被宣佈破產。➤refuse to拒絕支付▸➤help (to)幫助付錢◇The revenue will be used to help pay for environmental improvements.該收入將用於支付改善環境的部份費用。➤get sb to, make sb使某人支付◇If he had killed Caroline, then Mac was going to make him pay the price.如果他殺了卡羅琳的話，馬克會讓他付出代價的。➤let sb讓某人支付◇She wouldn't let me pay for my ticket.她不肯讓我自己付錢買票。PREPOSITION➤for付⋯的費用◇How much did you pay for your new car?你花多少錢買的新車？➤to付錢給⋯◇We pay £200 a week to our landlord.我們每個星期付給房東 200 英鎊。PHRASES➤ability to pay支付能力◇Taxation should be based on the ability to pay.徵稅應該以支付能力為基礎。
IELTS BNC: 227 COCA: 286
pay verb
⇨ pay (pay a bill) ⇨ pay attention ⇨ hearpay noun
⇨ income pay

verb

  ➡ See also the entry for spend 1 另见spend条第1义pay ♦︎ give ♦︎ settle ♦︎ meet ♦︎ defray ♦︎ clearThese words all mean to pay the money that you owe. 这些词均表示付清欠款、结账。PATTERNS AND COLLOCATIONS 句型和搭配◆to pay / settle / meet / clear your debts◆to pay / settle / meet a bill◆to pay / meet / defray the cost of sth◆to meet / defray the expense of sth■ pay (paid, paid) [intransitive, transitive] to give sb money for work, goods, services, etc. 付费；付酬◆I'll pay for the tickets.我来买票。◆My company pays well (= pays high salaries).我公司给的工资很高。◆There's a 5% discount if you pay cash.付现金有5%的折扣。◆She pays £200 a week for this apartment.这套公寓她每周要付200英镑。◆Would you mind paying the taxi driver?您付出租车费好吗？◆He still hasn't paid me the money he owes me.他还没还欠我的钱呢。◆I'm paid $100 a day.我每天的报酬是100元。  see also pay ⇨ income noun ■ give (gave, given) [transitive] to pay in order to have or do sth （为购买某物或做某事）支付，付款◆How much will you give me for the car?你肯出多少钱买我这辆车？◆I gave £50 for the lot.我花50英镑全买下来了。◆I'd give anything to see him again.只要能再见他一面我愿付出任何代价。■ settle [transitive, intransitive] to pay a bill or pay back money that you owe 付清（欠款）；结账◆The insurance company is refusing to settle her claim.保险公司拒付她提出的索赔款项。◆Let me settle with you for the meal.我来把饭费付给你。◆I'll pay now－we can settle up later.现在我来付账－咱们一会儿再算。■ meet (met, met) [transitive] to pay all of a cost or debt 付清；偿清◆The school had to sell off its playing fields to meet its debt repayments.学校不得不把操场卖掉来偿还债务。■ defray dɪˈfreɪ [transitive] (formal) to pay part or all of a cost 支付，付给（部分或全部费用）◆Proceeds from the raffle always help to defray the expenses of the annual dance.卖彩票的收益总能帮助支付周年舞会的费用。■ clear [transitive] to pay back all the money you owe 清偿，还清（债务）◆We are economizing for a few months to try to clear our overdraft.我们要过几个月节衣缩食的日子，努力还清透支。NOTE 辨析 Settle, meet, defray or clear? Settle and clear mean to pay all of an amount of money: settle is used for bills and debts, clear only for debts. Defray is a formal word usually used when sb/sth helps to pay part of a cost. Meet is used especially about payments that you make regularly. * settle和clear皆指付清整笔款项：settle指支付账单和还清债务，clear只用于清偿债务。defray一词很正式，通常指某人或某事帮助偿付部分费用。meet尤指定期付款。
IELTS BNC: 227 COCA: 286

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