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pay
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verb /peɪ/
present tense
I/you/we/theypay
he/she/itpays
present participlepaying
past tensepaid
past participlepaid
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    [I/T] to give money in order to buy something 支付；付
    pay for :

    Let me pay for dinner. 我来支付晚餐费用吧。

    pay someone for something :

    Can I pay you for this? 我可不可以因为这个付钱给你？

    pay by :

    Will you be paying by cash, cheque, or credit card? 您打算用现金、支票，还是信用卡来支付？

    pay with :

    I'd like to pay with my card. 我想用信用卡来支付。

    pay in dollars/pounds etc :

    Can I pay in dollars? 我可以用美元付账吗？

    pay (in) cash :

    There's a reduction if you pay cash. 如果用现金支付，会有折扣。

    pay the bill :

    Can I pay the bill, please? 我可以付账了吗？

     Synonyms and related words
    To spend or to pay money: disburse, spend, pay...
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      [I/T] to give money to someone who does a job for you 支付（某人）报酬；给（某人）工钱
      pay someone for something :

      We still haven't paid them for the repairs to the roof. 我们还没把修理屋顶的工钱给他们呢。

      pay someone to do something :

      We had to pay them over £100 to sort it out. 我们只好花100多英镑让他们去整理出来。

      pay to have/get something done :

      Now I'll have to pay to get the car fixed. 现在我只好花钱让别人帮我修车。

       Synonyms and related words
      To spend or to pay money: disburse, spend, pay...
    2. b.
      [I/T] to give a company, institution etc money that you owe them （向公司、机构等）偿付，缴纳

      We'll probably pay more in tax this year. 我们今年可能要缴纳更多的税金。

      Did you pay the gas bill? 你的煤气费交了吗？

       Synonyms and related words
      To pay, or to not pay money you owe: amortise, amortize, clear...
    3. c.
      [T] to give someone their salary 付给（某人）工资

      Some of the workers haven't been paid for weeks. 有些工人好几周都没拿到工资了。

       Synonyms and related words
      Words used to describe wages and salaries: earnings-related, gross, hourly...
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    [I/T] if a job pays a particular amount of money, you get that amount for doing it 支付（某一数额的）报酬

    She was in a job paying over £60,000 a year. 她从事的工作年薪有60,000多英镑。

    My new job pays well. 我的新工作薪水不菲。

     Synonyms and related words
    Words used to describe wages and salaries: earnings-related, gross, hourly...
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      [I] if a business pays, it earns money （生意）盈利

      We have a lot of hard work ahead if we're going to make the business pay. 如果想让生意盈利，我们有很多辛苦的工作要做。

       Synonyms and related words
      Relating to making profit: break-even point, commercial, speculative...
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    [I/T] to have a good result 有利；划算；值得
    it pays to do something :

    It pays to cover the pool to keep out falling leaves. 把池塘盖起来防止落叶掉进去是有好处的。

    it pays someone to do something :

    It would pay you to get it properly checked. 让人把它好好核对一下，对你会有好处的。

    crime doesn't pay :

    The message you get from the film is simple: crime doesn't pay. 你从电影中得到的信息很简单：多行不义必自毙。

     Synonyms and related words
    To be advantageous and yield benefits: pay off, pay, repay...
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    [I] to suffer because of something that you have done 自食恶果；付出代价

    It was an outrage, and somebody was going to pay. 那是暴行，会有人遭报应的。

    pay for :

    They had made him look like a fool and now they were going to pay for it. 他们让他看起来像个傻瓜，现在他们要自食恶果了。

    pay dearly for something (=suffer a lot because of something) 为某物付出昂贵的代价 :

    We may pay dearly for our arrogance. 我们可能会为我们的傲慢付出昂贵的代价。

    make someone pay (for something) :

    She had ruined his life and now he was going to make her pay. 她毁掉了他的生活，现在他要让她为此付出代价。

     Synonyms and related words
    To be in, or to get into a difficult situation: run out of road, suffer, undergo...
  5. From our crowdsourced Open Dictionary
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    you get what you pay for! an exclamation used to express your frustration with some service

    Employees often use the phrase "You get what you pay for" to justify their mistreatment of customers.

    Submitted by Boris Marchenko from Russian Federation on 12/11/2014
     
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    pay it forward a philosophy that the receiver of a gift, feeling grateful for a kindness, at the request of the gifter must not say thank you, instead they are to pay the kindness forward when the opportunity presents itself

    My only request is that you Pay It Forward when the opportunity presents itself.

    Submitted by BMB from United States on 30/11/2016
     
See also
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Get It Right!: pay
The verb pay is never followed by a direct object that refers to the thing you are buying. We pay for a product or service:
✗ Credit cards are used to pay the product you purchased without using cash.
✓ Credit cards are used to pay for the product you purchased without using cash.
✗ At that time, very few people could pay a university education.
✓ At that time, very few people could pay for a university education.
You can also use pay in these patterns:
▪  pay someone for something
▪  pay an amount of money for something
▪  pay someone an amount of money for something
It was rumoured that Texaco had paid the government over $800 million for drilling rights.
Have you paid your brother for the cinema tickets?
However, pay can be used with a direct object which refers to money that is paid for a specific purpose. The nouns most frequently used in this pattern are:
bill, charge, compensation, debt, fine, price, fee, rent, salary, tax, wage
Around one third of schoolchildren failed to enrol this year because their parents could not pay the school fees.
Married couples are taxed independently, and each spouse is responsible for paying tax on his/her own income.
pay
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noun [U] /peɪ/
  1. money that you receive for doing your job 报酬；薪水；工资

    They were demanding higher pay. 他们要求加薪。

    pay and conditions :

    There will be improvements in pay and conditions for all staff. 全体员工的薪水和工作条件都会有所改善。

    basic pay (=your pay without extra payments) 基本工资 :

    The basic pay is so low that you end up putting in lots of overtime. 基本工资那么低，使得你只好拼命加班了。

     Synonyms and related words
    Wages and salaries: wage, salary, pay...
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      connected with pay 与工资有关的
      a pay rise/increase :

      They received a pay increase that was much higher than expected. 他们得到的加薪比预期的还要高。

      a pay freeze (=a decision not to increase pay) 停止加薪的决定 :

      A pay freeze is thought to be likely. 大家认为可能会停止加薪。

       Synonyms and related words
      Wages and salaries: wage, salary, pay...

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