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Unit 4 Adversity and Courage
Words Explanation
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重难点词精讲
resolve & resolution
一词多义
abandon
turn down
sink
一词多义
辨析义
wage
assign
搭配义
一词多义
精准的汉语释义
一词多义
正式用语
1. wage
2020年7月23日,华为公布了8名天才少年的年薪方案,全部为2019届应届顶尖学生,学历均为博士,年薪最低限89.6万元,最高限201万元,引起网友热议。
在羡慕的同时,让我们来学习一下关于“薪资”的表达吧!
说到“工资”“薪水”,你能想到的单词是?
pay
salary
wage
三个单词之间到底有何不同呢?
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wage词源解读
wage原指承诺对别人服务的报酬,引申为“工资” 。原仅限于手工和机械劳动所得,后词义通用化。
wage
n [C][常用复数]工资;薪金:
the high / low wages policy
高 / 低工资政策
Some temporary workers took the weekly wage.
有些临时工拿周工资。
vt 开始;发动:
The new government has pledged itself to wage a war / campaign against poverty and disease.
新的政府发誓开展一场消灭贫困和疾病的斗争。
wage, pay, salary
析
辨
相同点: 三者都可用作名词,含“报酬”之意
三者都常译为“工资”
不同点:
wage 指简单劳动或体力劳动工作者所得的“工资”“工钱”,通常按周、日、小时等短期计算发给,常用复数形式,但用于名词前时用单数形式。
In our family both my husband and I are wage earners.
pay 指不论工作性质如何,通过各种劳动所得到的报酬,它包含salary和wage,不可数。
He doesn’t like the job, but the pay he gets from it is good.
salary 指非体力劳动者所得到的“工资”“薪水”,通常按月计算,有时按季或年计算。
His regular salary doesn’t come to much, but he gets bonuses too.
2. assign
分配(某物);布置(工作、任务等):
The hardest work was assigned to the strongest laborers.
When teachers assign homework, students usually feel an obligation to do it.
assign sb sth / assign sth to sb:
The teacher assigned a different task to each of the children. = The teacher assigned each of the children a different task.
委派;指派:
assign sb to sb / sth:
In Rio, the Chinese women’s volleyball team was assigned to the “group of death”.
assign sb to do sth:
Clarence Sinclair Bull was assigned to do all her official photography.
构词:- (to) + sign (做标记) → 在选定的人 / 物上做标记 → 指定;委派
assignment
n
[C] & [U](分配的)任务;作业:
homework / school / maths assignment
I was hoping you could tell me the reading assignment.
She just laughed when she heard that the boss had made the assignment purposedly.
[U] 分配;指派:
There’s a room assignment sheet on the bulletin
board outside this office.
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