名詞 wage:

1. something that remunerates
   同義詞：pay, earnings, remuneration, salary

動詞 wage:

1. carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns)
   同義詞：engage

1. How can I keep a family on such a miserable wage?
   我怎么能靠這麼可憐的工資養(yǎng)家？
2. I can hardly exist on the wage I'm getting; there is no money for luxuries.
   我靠我掙的工資簡直難以　口，根本無錢享受。
3. How do they manage to subsist on such a low wage?
   他們這點工資怎么糊口？
4. We've decided to negotiate with the employers about our wage claim.
   我們決定就工資問題與雇主談判。
5. A postman's wages are 180 per week.
   郵遞員的工資為每周180英鎊。
6. In our family both my husband and I are wage earners.
   在我們家里，丈夫和我都掙工資。
7. The government has pledged itself to wage a war against poverty and disease.
   政府發(fā)誓要進行一場消滅貧窮和疾病的斗爭。
8. The government has introduced a wage freeze.
   政府已宣布要凍結(jié)工資。

wage

n.（名詞）
Payment for labor or services to a worker, especially remuneration on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis or by the piece.
工資：為勞動或服務伏給一個工人的報酬，尤指按小時、天數(shù)或周給或按工作量給
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 工資總額：國民生產(chǎn)總值的一部分，表示付給所有有價值的工作或服務的報酬總額，以用來區(qū)分于因管理或再投入到貨幣資本的那部分國民生產(chǎn)總值
Often wages (used with a sing. or pl. verb)A fitting return; a recompense:
常作 wages （與單數(shù)或復數(shù)動詞連用）報酬：合適的報酬；酬勞：
例句：
the wages of sin.
罪惡的報應

v.tr.（及物動詞）
waged,wag.ing,wag.es
To engage in (a war or campaign, for example).
從事于（如戰(zhàn)爭或戰(zhàn)役）

來源：
Middle English
中古英語
from Old North French
源自 古法國北方方言
[of Germanic origin]
[日耳曼語源]