minimum wage
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- n.（法定的）最低工资
- 网络保底工资；法定最工资；基本工资
英汉双解
1. | （法定的）最低工资the lowest wage that an employer is allowed to pay by law |
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As the annoying financial crisis, I can only maintain the minimum wage standard of living, I really do not know after.
由于讨厌的金融危机，目前我工资只能维持最低生活标准，真不知以后咋办。
"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·鲁丁腰缠万贯，”她说，“我觉得他就是要给五个实习生发最低的工资，也不是什么难事。”
About two dozen unionists staged a protest to call for the immediate setting up of a minimum wage and maximum working hours.
十二个工会团体集会，要求政府立即制订最低工资及标准工时。
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.
在经历了两年求职被拒后，杰里.牛顿终于在一个大型的零售连锁店找到了一份兼职工作，工资不高；虽然她对这份工作不满意，但总比没有工作强多了。
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•门德尔松律师事务所（LittlerMendelson）的合伙人亚当•福尔曼（AdamForeman）表示，美国法律规定应向实习生支付最低工资，但这常常被忽略。
During peak periods there was a compulsory seven-day week and the company was found to be failing to pay the minimum wage.
在高峰时期，将会是强制的一星期七天工作并且发现到公司连最少的工资都发不下来。
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.
大多数人工作很长时间，得到的食物很少，没有时间休息。并且如果把工资具体化后，无论如何那只是最低工资的一小部分。
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.
各工会的要求中，包括有结束公共部门裁员，设定工资下限以及对富人的减税变为加税。
This would not be a problem if the minimum wage was a living wage, but in many Chinese cities it is anything but.
将最低生活保证金作为最低工资，原本不是问题，而在我国的许多城市却非如此。
The very poorest, who slip under the minimum-wage threshold to take the most menial and casual jobs, earn less than $200 a year.
而对于那些连最低工资都拿不到的穷人来讲，他们只能为别人做佣人或作一些杂活而一年挣得200美元。
Today, I finally got my paycheck from working at my minimum wage job for the last three months.
今天我终于收到了底薪干了三个月的地方发给我的薪水支票。
Over the next two years, the minimum wage in the United States is expected to rise to $7. 25 an hour.
两年之后，美国的最低工资标准有望达到每小时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，最低工资跌到了贫困线以下。
Mike: It only pays minimum wage , but it has set hours and it is indoors, so I can stay out of the heat.
这份兼职只付最低薪水，但它有固定的工作时间，而且在室内，我可以远离酷热。
Even if I was fortunate enough to get hired right away, I'd be lucky to receive anything above minimum wage.
如果我有幸能得到当场聘用，得到任何高于最低工资的薪水也是幸运的。
My boss told me that because minimum wage went up, that would be my raise.
老板说那是因为最低工资提高了，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.
由此可见，最低工资实施与否已非最具争议，最重要的是，最低工资的合理水平何在？
Although minimum wage rates had previously covered a few industries, this was the first time that a general rate had been set.
尽管起初最低工资标准仅涉及为数不多的行业，但设立一种统一的标准毕竟是第一次。
As part of the new law, the government will review the minimum wage level at least once every two years.
作为该法案的一部分，香港政府需要至少每两年对最低工资标准进行复核一次。
These dire warnings proved way off the mark after the national minimum wage came into force seven years ago.
可自从7年前最低工资标准开始实行以来，事实证明这些警告纯属杞人忧天。
If Big Business would be the winner from a repeal of the minimum wage, it is no great secret who the losers would be.
如果废除了最低工资，大企业将是最后的赢家。而谁是输家也是显而易见的。
Look for minimum wage or volunteer work for professors on campus who are in areas that might be of interest to you.
去寻找那些可以为你感兴趣学科的教授志愿工作或者获取少量工资的机会。
The governments invariably determine the minimum wage on the basis of the cost of consumption to meet workers' minimum nutritional needs .
因为政府总是根据满足员工最低营养需求的消费水平来制定最低工资标准。
They receive 'near the minimum wage' in Foshan, he said.
他说，这些实习生的报酬“接近”佛山的最低工资标准。
Japan does not have a national minimum wage, but rather a local system which tends to set minima at very low levels.
日本没有全国统一的最低工资制，而有把最低工资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.
有时候你能大赚一笔，但是也有些时候那绵薄的收入相对于你投入的时间成本而言是入不敷出的。
The minimum wage has increased. The minimum wage is not enough to stop poverty.
虽然最低工资提高了，但还是不足以消除贫困。
The city is engulfed in a divisive debate as it prepares to set its first-ever minimum wage.
准备制定历史上首个最低工资标准之时，香港淹没在了一片针锋相对的激辩声中。
They were more than twice as likely as other workers to be paid less than the minimum wage.
她们的薪酬低于最低工资的可能性是其它工人的两倍以上。
Employers frequently pay workers below the minimum wage, and some employers do not pay their workers at all.
雇主常付给工人低于最低工资的薪水，而且有些雇主根本给他们的工人支薪。
By embracing a minimum wage Mrs Merkel may deprive the opposition of a vote-winner in the next election, due in September 2013.
反对党本可以最低工资制在2013年9月的大选上为自己赢得选票，却被默克尔夫人捷足先登。
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，对于最低工资没有人有太多的抱怨。它已经改善了成千上万名工人微波的收入。
the standard wage paid by an employing unit to an employee shall not be lower than the minimum wage.
用人单位支付给员工的标准工资不得低于最低工资。
The document affirms domestic workers' rights to a minimum wage, a weekly day off and a limit to their working hours.
该文件确认国内工人权利的最低工资，每周一天假，对他们的工作时间限制。
The Minimum Wage is one of the systems to protect the legal rights and interests of the peasant workers.
最低工资制度是保护农民工合法权益的重要制度之一。
Chinese companies protest they are paying at least the minimum wage, so are not breaking the law.
中国公司抗议说他们付的已经超过最低工资了，所以并没有违反法律。
It is offering subsidies for rice farmers and its own version of a hike in the minimum wage.
它承诺为种植稻田的农民提供津贴以及重新规定最低工资额度。
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?
我们知道我们最终都会死，我们知道我们这个地球上的时间是有限的，为什么我们的贸易存在小时最低工资？
Nigerian labor leaders are calling for a three-day general strike next week to protest failures to pay a new, national minimum wage.
尼日利亚劳工领袖呼吁在下星期进行为期三天的大罢工，以抗议政府没有做到支付新的全国最低工资。
They will work for just above minimum wage and over 100 hours a week -- trust us on this one.
他们的薪水比最低工资水平稍高，每周可以工作100个小时以上——相信我们。
