waging

英 [ˈweɪdʒɪŋ]

美 [ˈweɪdʒɪŋ]

v.  开始，发动，进行，继续(战争、战斗等)
wage的现在分词

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 工资;工钱
  Someone'swagesare the amount of money that is regularly paid to them for the work that they do.
  1. His wages have gone up...
     他涨工资了。
  2. This may end efforts to set a minimum wage well above the poverty line.
     这可能会使将最低工资定得远高于贫困线的努力告吹。
• VERB 开展，发动(运动或战争)
  If a person, group, or countrywagesa campaign or a war, they start it and continue it over a period of time.
  1. ...the three factions that had been waging a civil war...
     发动内战的三个派别
  2. They waged a price war.
     他们打起了价格战。

When used as a noun,payis a general word which you can use to refer to the money you get from your employer for doing your job. Manual workers are paidwages, ora wage. The plural is more common than the singular, especially when you are talking about the actual cash that someone receives.Every week he handed all his wages in cash to his wife.Wagesare usually paid, and quoted, as an hourly or a weekly sum....a starting wage of five dollars an hour.Professional people and office workers receive asalary, which is paid monthly. However, when talking about someone's salary, you usually give the annual figure.I'm paid a salary of £15,000 a year.Yourincomeconsists of all the money you receive from all sources, including your pay.
pay 用作名词时，泛指从雇主处得到的工资或薪水。体力劳动者的工资通常用 wages 或 a wage表示，其中复数形式更为常见，尤其是表示实际拿到的现金时。例如，Every week he handed all his wages in cash to his wife (每周他都将自己领到的工资全部交给妻子)。wages 通常按小时或按周支付或计算：a starting wage of five dollars an hour (每小时5美元的起薪)。专业人士以及办公室职员的工资用 salary 表示，通常按月支付。但是在谈论某人的薪水时，通常用年薪来表示：I'm paid a salary of £ 15, 000 a year (我年薪为15, 000英镑)。 income 表示从各个来源获得的总收入，包括工资。

双语例句

• They preach peace while waging or preparing for war.
  他们一面鼓吹和平一面却在发动或准备战争。
• Get out of your inbox and get productive. Stop waging the email war.
  从你的收件箱中摆脱出来，让自己更有效率。不要再卷入邮件大战中了。
• The president is waging a campaign to win over organized labor.
  总统开展了一场运动以赢得工会工人的支持。
• They were outstanding in waging the battle against inflation.
  它们在对抗通胀上非常出色。
• WAGING a war against an enemy equipped as well as you are is a hard enough proposition.
  如果敌人的装备和你自己差不多，同他作战已经够困难了。
• Waging two wars on a peacetime budget is rapidly wearing out vehicles and equipment.
  在一个和平时期发动两场战争，预算正在迅速变成车辆和装备。
• The government is now waging a public information campaign to encourage safe practices in the handling of poultry.
  政府目前正在开展一场公众宣传运动，以鼓励在处理家禽中采取安全的做法。
• We are waging two wars.
  我们正在参与两场战争。
• The seeds of defeat for the Clinton campaign may have been planted as early as2002, when Senator Clinton voted in favor of waging war in Iraq.
  克林顿竞选失败的种子也许早在2002年就已经种下了。当时，克林顿参议员投票赞成对伊拉克发动战争。
• For one country to accuse another of waging a currency war in 2013 is therefore absurd.
  从这点来说，2013年一个国家指责另一个国家发动货币战争是荒谬的。