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salary

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🇺🇸 /sˈælɚi/ 🇬🇧 /ˈsæləɹi/
adj 编号: S00192 牛津3000 BNC #2751 COCA #2455
salary主要指按月或按年定期支付给雇员的固定工资,也可少见地作动词,表示按固定周期支付报酬。
💡 记忆钩子
可以把salary想成定期发下来的“盐钱”:原词词源与“盐”有关的说法虽未获古代证据充分支持,但这个意象有助于记住它从“盐”联想到固定报酬,再引申为按这种周期发钱;“含盐的”是古旧的旁支用法。
📝 学习建议
  • 先掌握名词义,这是现代英语中最重要、最常见的用法;动词义和形容词义可放到后面学习。
  • salary通常不是泛指所有劳动报酬,也不专指“月薪”;按小时或按件计算的收入通常另用相应词语表示。
📖 中文释义
adj
  • rare 含盐的;咸的
    📖 这是salary的古旧形容词义,直接表示“含盐的”,与现代英语中表示固定工资的主要名词义不是日常使用中的同一条意思。
    💡 通常只出现在古语或历史性语境中,不能按现代普通形容词那样自由修饰名词。描述食物咸味时,应使用现代英语中表示“咸”的常用词,而不是salary。
    obsolete
more salary comparative most salary superlative
noun
  • core 固定工资;薪水
    📖 salary指雇员按照固定周期领取的工作报酬,通常按月或按年计算,而不是每小时结算。它把“定期发下来的钱”这个核心意象具体化为较稳定的职业收入。
    💡 常用“earn、receive、pay a salary”表示挣得、领取或支付工资,也可用“a salary of + 金额”说明数额。谈工作待遇时,salary通常指基本的固定报酬,不自动包括奖金、补贴或福利。不要把salary误解成只发一次的报酬,也不要用它专指按小时计算的工资。
    The company offers a competitive salary and health insurance.
    这家公司提供有竞争力的薪水和医疗保险。
    She earns a good salary as an engineer.
    她当工程师,薪水很不错。
salaries plural
verb
  • rare 按固定周期支付报酬
    📖 salary作动词时,表示把某人的报酬安排为按周或更长周期固定支付,常含有从其他计酬方式改成固定薪酬的意思。它仍然围绕“定期发钱”这一核心概念,但现代使用十分有限。
    💡 通常用“salary + 人 + by the week”说明支付对象和周期,或用相应结构说明固定报酬数额。该用法较正式、少见,日常表达支付工资时一般不会优先选择它。学习时先认识即可,不必主动套用到普通对话中。
salaries present,singular,third-person salarying participle,present salaried participle,past salaried past
📘 英文释义 (WordNet) 共 1 组
something that remunerates; ;
同义词集: wage pay earnings remuneration salary
wages were paid by check
he wasted his pay on drink
they saved a quarter of all their earnings
下位: found
🌳 词源
源自中古英语,经古法语追溯到拉丁语,词根与“盐”有关。关于“盐”如何变成“工资”的具体过程有多种推测,但缺乏古代文献证据,不能当作确定史实。
From Middle English salarie, from Anglo-Norman salarie, from Old French salaire, from Latin salārium (“wages”), the neuter form of the adjective salārius (“related to salt”), from sal (“salt”). There have been various attempts to explain how the Latin term for “wages” came from the adjective “related to salt”. It is generally assumed that salārium was an abbreviation of salārium argentum (“salt money”), though that phrase is not attested. A commonly cited theory states that the phrase meant “money consisting of salt”, because, supposedly, Roman soldiers were sometimes paid in salt, but there is no evidence for either of these claims from ancient sources. Another is that the phrase meant “money used to buy salt [and other miscellaneous items]”.
🔄 变式
more salary compar most salary superl salaried past salaries plural salarying present
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