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

• We have been waging a desperate campaign against the drug pusher.
  我们已经发起一场运动，与贩毒分子作殊死斗争。
• 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。
• 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。
• The military government is waging a war of words against its supposed enemies. Foremost among these are the foreign media.
  军政府针对假想的敌人展开了一场唇枪舌剑的战斗。这其中首当其冲的就是外国媒体。
• I have not wronged you, but you are doing me wrong by waging war against me.
  原来我没有得罪你，你却攻打我，恶待我。
• He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.
  他们放弃设在这里的政府，宣称我们已不属他们保护之列，并向我们发动战争。
• 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。
• Many a tribe has survived by intermarrying with its rivals rather than waging war on them.
  很多部落不是通过对敌对部落发动战争，而是过通与其通婚得以生存下来的。
• The two countries are waging an endless war.
  这两个国家正在进行一场无休止的战争。
• The right-wing press was waging a vendetta against the mayor.
  右翼报刊出于宿怨对市长进行攻击。