minimum wage

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• n.（法定的）最低工資
• 網(wǎng)絡(luò)保底工資；法定最工資；基本工資

英漢雙解

英漢解釋

na.	1. (法定)最低工資

英英解釋

n.	1. the smallest amount of money that an employer is legally allowed to pay a worker

例句

As the annoying financial crisis, I can only maintain the minimum wage standard of living, I really do not know after.

由于討厭的金融危機(jī)，目前我工資只能維持最低生活標(biāo)準(zhǔn)，真不知以后咋辦。

"Scott Rudin is made of money, " she said. "I don't think it would be so hard for him to pay five interns the minimum wage. "

“斯科特·魯丁腰纏萬貫，”她說，“我覺得他就是要給五個(gè)實(shí)習(xí)生發(fā)最低的工資，也不是什么難事?！?/jz>

About two dozen unionists staged a protest to call for the immediate setting up of a minimum wage and maximum working hours.

十二個(gè)工會(huì)團(tuán)體集會(huì)，要求政府立即制訂最低工資及標(biāo)準(zhǔn)工時(shí)。

After two years of "no" , she landed an interview at a big retail chain store, for a part-time, minimum wage job; not ideal, but something.

在經(jīng)歷了兩年求職被拒后，杰里.牛頓終于在一個(gè)大型的零售連鎖店找到了一份兼職工作，工資不高；雖然她對(duì)這份工作不滿意，但總比沒有工作強(qiáng)多了。

Adam Foreman, a partner at Littler Mendelson, the law firm, says US law that guarantees interns a minimum wage is often ignored.

利特勒?門德爾松律師事務(wù)所（LittlerMendelson）的合伙人亞當(dāng)?福爾曼（AdamForeman）表示，美國(guó)法律規(guī)定應(yīng)向實(shí)習(xí)生支付最低工資，但這常常被忽略。

During peak periods there was a compulsory seven-day week and the company was found to be failing to pay the minimum wage.

在高峰時(shí)期，將會(huì)是強(qiáng)制的一星期七天工作并且發(fā)現(xiàn)到公司連最少的工資都發(fā)不下來。

Many work very long hours and receive little food, no time off and pay that is a fraction of any minimum wage, if it materialises at all.

大多數(shù)人工作很長(zhǎng)時(shí)間，得到的食物很少，沒有時(shí)間休息。并且如果把工資具體化后，無論如何那只是最低工資的一小部分。

Among the unions' demands were an end to public-sector job cuts, a boost to the minimum wage and a reversal of tax cuts for the rich.

各工會(huì)的要求中，包括有結(jié)束公共部門裁員，設(shè)定工資下限以及對(duì)富人的減稅變?yōu)?/c>加稅。

This would not be a problem if the minimum wage was a living wage, but in many Chinese cities it is anything but.

將最低生活保證金作為最低工資，原本不是問題，而在我國(guó)的許多城市卻非如此。

The very poorest, who slip under the minimum-wage threshold to take the most menial and casual jobs, earn less than $200 a year.

而對(duì)于那些連最低工資都拿不到的窮人來講，他們只能為別人做傭人或作一些雜活而一年掙得200美元。

Today, I finally got my paycheck from working at my minimum wage job for the last three months.

今天我終于收到了底薪干了三個(gè)月的地方發(fā)給我的薪水支票。

Over the next two years, the minimum wage in the United States is expected to rise to $7. 25 an hour.

兩年之后，美國(guó)的最低工資標(biāo)準(zhǔn)有望達(dá)到每小時(shí)7.25美元。

In the early years of the reform, the minimum wage fell significantly below the poverty line.

在早期的改革中，最低工資跌到了貧困線以下。

Mike: It only pays minimum wage , but it has set hours and it is indoors, so I can stay out of the heat.

這份兼職只付最低薪水，但它有固定的工作時(shí)間，而且在室內(nèi)，我可以遠(yuǎn)離酷熱。

Even if I was fortunate enough to get hired right away, I'd be lucky to receive anything above minimum wage.

如果我有幸能得到當(dāng)場(chǎng)聘用，得到任何高于最低工資的薪水也是幸運(yùn)的。

My boss told me that because minimum wage went up, that would be my raise.

老板說那是因?yàn)?/c>最低工資提高了，所以我才加薪的。

Clearly, it is no longer at issue whether there should be a minimum wage. The issue now is the level of the statutory minimum wage.

由此可見，最低工資實(shí)施與否已非最具爭(zhēng)議，最重要的是，最低工資的合理水平何在？

Although minimum wage rates had previously covered a few industries, this was the first time that a general rate had been set.

盡管起初最低工資標(biāo)準(zhǔn)僅涉及為數(shù)不多的行業(yè)，但設(shè)立一種統(tǒng)一的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)畢竟是第一次。

As part of the new law, the government will review the minimum wage level at least once every two years.

作為該法案的一部分，香港政府需要至少每兩年對(duì)最低工資標(biāo)準(zhǔn)進(jìn)行復(fù)核一次。

These dire warnings proved way off the mark after the national minimum wage came into force seven years ago.

可自從7年前最低工資標(biāo)準(zhǔn)開始實(shí)行以來，事實(shí)證明這些警告純屬杞人憂天。

If Big Business would be the winner from a repeal of the minimum wage, it is no great secret who the losers would be.

如果廢除了最低工資，大企業(yè)將是最后的贏家。而誰是輸家也是顯而易見的。

Look for minimum wage or volunteer work for professors on campus who are in areas that might be of interest to you.

去尋找那些可以為你感興趣學(xué)科的教授志愿工作或者獲取少量工資的機(jī)會(huì)。

The governments invariably determine the minimum wage on the basis of the cost of consumption to meet workers' minimum nutritional needs .

因?yàn)?/c>政府總是根據(jù)滿足員工最低營(yíng)養(yǎng)需求的消費(fèi)水平來制定最低工資標(biāo)準(zhǔn)。

They receive 'near the minimum wage' in Foshan, he said.

他說，這些實(shí)習(xí)生的報(bào)酬“接近”佛山的最低工資標(biāo)準(zhǔn)。

Japan does not have a national minimum wage, but rather a local system which tends to set minima at very low levels.

日本沒有全國(guó)統(tǒng)一的最低工資制，而有把最低工資水平定得很低的地方制度。

Sometimes it pays off handsomely but other times the earnings, given the hours you put in, don't even add up to minimum wage.

有時(shí)候你能大賺一筆，但是也有些時(shí)候那綿薄的收入相對(duì)于你投入的時(shí)間成本而言是入不敷出的。

The minimum wage has increased. The minimum wage is not enough to stop poverty.

雖然最低工資提高了，但還是不足以消除貧困。

The city is engulfed in a divisive debate as it prepares to set its first-ever minimum wage.

準(zhǔn)備制定歷史上首個(gè)最低工資標(biāo)準(zhǔn)之時(shí)，香港淹沒在了一片針鋒相對(duì)的激辯聲中。

They were more than twice as likely as other workers to be paid less than the minimum wage.

她們的薪酬低于最低工資的可能性是其它工人的兩倍以上。

Employers frequently pay workers below the minimum wage, and some employers do not pay their workers at all.

雇主常付給工人低于最低工資的薪水，而且有些雇主根本給他們的工人支薪。

By embracing a minimum wage Mrs Merkel may deprive the opposition of a vote-winner in the next election, due in September 2013.

反對(duì)黨本可以最低工資制在2013年9月的大選上為自己贏得選票，卻被默克爾夫人捷足先登。

No one much complains about the minimum wage today; it has improved the meagre lot of hundreds of thousands of low-paid workers.

如今，對(duì)于最低工資沒有人有太多的抱怨。它已經(jīng)改善了成千上萬名工人微波的收入。

the standard wage paid by an employing unit to an employee shall not be lower than the minimum wage.

用人單位支付給員工的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)工資不得低于最低工資。

The document affirms domestic workers' rights to a minimum wage, a weekly day off and a limit to their working hours.

該文件確認(rèn)國(guó)內(nèi)工人權(quán)利的最低工資，每周一天假，對(duì)他們的工作時(shí)間限制。

The Minimum Wage is one of the systems to protect the legal rights and interests of the peasant workers.

最低工資制度是保護(hù)農(nóng)民工合法權(quán)益的重要制度之一。

Chinese companies protest they are paying at least the minimum wage, so are not breaking the law.

中國(guó)公司抗議說他們付的已經(jīng)超過最低工資了，所以并沒有違反法律。

It is offering subsidies for rice farmers and its own version of a hike in the minimum wage.

它承諾為種植稻田的農(nóng)民提供津貼以及重新規(guī)定最低工資額度。

We know we'll all die eventually, we know our time on this earth is limited, so why do we trade hours of our existence for minimum wage?

我們知道我們最終都會(huì)死，我們知道我們這個(gè)地球上的時(shí)間是有限的，為什么我們的貿(mào)易存在小時(shí)最低工資？

Nigerian labor leaders are calling for a three-day general strike next week to protest failures to pay a new, national minimum wage.

尼日利亞勞工領(lǐng)袖呼吁在下星期進(jìn)行為期三天的大罷工，以抗議政府沒有做到支付新的全國(guó)最低工資。

They will work for just above minimum wage and over 100 hours a week -- trust us on this one.

他們的薪水比最低工資水平稍高，每周可以工作100個(gè)小時(shí)以上——相信我們。