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

• But the pro-government hackers have still been publicly waging cyber war against Assad regime opponents.
  SEA对此予以否认，但这些亲政府的黑客们仍公开与阿萨德政权的反对者大打网络战。
• 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 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。
• They were outstanding in waging the battle against inflation.
  它们在对抗通胀上非常出色。
• 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。
• I will not yield. I will not rest. I will not relent in waging this struggle for the freedom and security of the American people.
  我不会屈服，不会停步，为了美国人民的自由和安全，我要顽强地斗争，永不停息。
• It would insist upon waging war, decisively and finally, against Japanese aggression.
  那就是坚决地、断然地坚持对日本侵略进行抗战。
• 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。
• At that time it was called abyssinia, and its people were courageously waging a just war against the Italian Fascist aggressors.
  当时叫阿比西尼亚，进行了英勇的抗击意大利法西斯侵略者的正义战争。