wages

賃金、給料

働いたことに対して受け取るお金。

やさしい英語で： Money that you receive for the work you do.

• My wages cover the rent.
• The company raised wages last year.
• Do they pay decent wages?

類義語： pay, earnings

よく使う表現： earn wages, weekly wages, low wages, higher wages

収入、賃金

ある期間に稼いだお金の合計。

やさしい英語で： The total money you earn during a particular period.

• Her weekly wages are six hundred pounds.
• He saved half his monthly wages.
• Their annual wages barely covered household expenses.

類義語： earnings, income, pay

よく使う表現： weekly wages, monthly wages

報い、代償

悪い行いや状況の結果として受ける苦しみや罰。

やさしい英語で： The suffering or punishment that results from a bad action or situation.

• These broken families are the wages of war.
• He called his loneliness the wages of greed.
• The story explores the wages of betrayal.

使い方： the wages of something (The ruined villages showed the wages of war.)

類義語： consequences, punishment

よく使う表現： wages of sin, wages of war