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| 1 | I/T to give money in order to buy something 支付；付 |
| +for Let me pay for dinner. 我来支付晚餐费用吧。 |
| pay sb for sth Can I pay you for this? 我可不可以因为这个付钱给你？ |
| +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？ |
| +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？ |
| | 1a | 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 sb for sth 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 sb to do sth 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 sth 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。 | |
| | 1b | 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？ | |
| | 1c | 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。 | |
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| 2 | 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60000多英镑。 |
| My new job pays well. 我的新工作薪水不菲。 |
| | 2a | 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。 | |
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| 3 | I/T to have a good result 有利；划算；值得 |
| it pays to do sth 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 sb to do sth 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。 |
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| 4 | I to suffer because of something 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。 |
| +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 sth (=suffer a lot because of sth) We may pay dearly for our arrogance. 为某物付出昂贵的代价 |
| make sb pay (for sth) 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。 |
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| - | pay court to sb literary
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| to try to make someone like you by showing them how much you admire or love them |
| 向某人献殷勤；讨好某人 |
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| - | pay sb a compliment
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| to say something nice about someone |
| 恭维某人 |
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| - | pay dividends
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| to bring you a lot of benefit |
| 得到丰厚的好处 |
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| Thorough lesson planning always pays dividends. 仔细备课通常好处颇多。 |
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| - | pay for itself
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| if something that you have bought pays for itself , it allows you to save as much money as you paid when you bought it |
| 自己赚回成本 |
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| A more efficient machine would pay for itself within a year. 效率更高的机器会在一年内自己把成本赚回来。 |
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| - | pay good money for sth
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| to pay a lot for somethingused for emphasizing that you spent a lot , especially when it has not been worth it |
| 为某物（尤指不值得的东西）花大价钱 |
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| I paid good money for those shoes, and you’ ve only worn them twice. 买那些鞋子我花了大价钱，而你只穿了两次。 |
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| - | pay heed very formal
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| to consider something or give it your attention |
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| +to The government had paid no heed to agricultural advisers. 政府对农业顾问们不闻不问。 |
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| - | pay lip service to sth
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| to say that you support something although you do not really , especially when you do nothing to prove your support |
| 口头上支持某事 |
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| Most people only paid lip service to the state religion. 大部分人只是口头上支持国教。 |
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| - | pay over the odds (for sth) BRITISH
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| to pay more than usual or necessary for something |
| （为某事）花钱过多 |
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| They don’ t mind paying over the odds for something unusual. 他们并不介意为不寻常之物而破费一番。 |
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| - | pay the penalty/price for sth
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| to have to deal with the bad effects of something you have done |
| 为某事受到惩罚/付出代价 |
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| One day you will all pay the price for your selfish behaviour. 总有一天你会为你自私的行为付出代价的。 |
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| - | pay sb/sth a /visit/call
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| to visit someone or something |
| 看望某人/某物 |
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| I think it’ s time we paid the school a visit. 我想我们该去学校看看了。 |
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| - | pay through the nose (for sth) informal
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| to pay much too much for something |
| （为某物）付费过高，花代价过大 |
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| In the city centre restaurants, you pay through the nose for your drinks. 在市中心的餐馆里，饮料价格很昂贵。 |
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| - | pay tribute/homage to sb
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| to say or do something that shows you respect and admire someone a lot |
| 对某人表示尊敬/崇拜 |
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| - | pay your respects (to sb) formal
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| 1 | to visit someone or send them a greeting 拜访（某人）；（向某人）致以问候 | Please pay my respects to your mother. 请代我问候你母亲。 | |
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| 2 | to go to someone’ s funeral 参加（某人的）葬礼 | Thousands turned up to pay their last respects to a great leader. 上千人参加了葬礼，向伟大的领袖致以最后的敬意。 | |
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| - | pay your way
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| to pay for everything you need or use yourself , rather than allowing or expecting other people to pay for you |
| 支付份内的费用；自食其力 |
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| Your children grow up and they start to pay their way. 你的孩子们长大了，他们开始自食其力。 |
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| PHRASAL VERBS |
| - | ˌpay ˈback |
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| 1 | to give someone the same amount of money that you borrowed from them 偿还（借款）；还（某人）的钱 | I’ ll be able to pay you back next week. 我下周就可以把钱还给你。 | | I don’ t think we can afford to pay the full amount back now. 我觉得我们现在还没办法把所有的欠款都还清。 | | pay sb sth back She’ ll pay us the rest back when she gets her wages. 她拿到工资后会把剩余的欠款都还给我们。 | |
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| 2 | to do something bad to someone because they have done something bad to you 报复（某人） | pay sb back for sth She knew how to pay them back for the trouble they had caused. 他们惹出了那些麻烦，她知道怎样报复他们。 | |
| - | ˌpay ˈin |
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| | to put money into your bank account 把（钱）存入财户 | I’ d like to pay these two cheques in. 我想把这两张支票存起来。 | |
| - | ˈpay into |
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| 1 | BRITISH to put money into your bank account 把（钱）存入财户 | You can pay cash into any one of our three hundred branches. 你可以把现金存到我们300处分行的任何一处。 | |
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| 2 | pay into sth, pay sth into sth: to invest money in something such as an insurance policy or a pension fund so that you will receive money in the future 投资到（保险、养老金等）中 | She pays into the employees’ pension scheme. 她把钱投到员工们的退休金方案中去。 | |
| - | ˌpay ˈoff |
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| 1 | I if something that you do pays off , it brings you some benefit 盈利；得到回报 | All those weeks of studying will pay off when you take the exam. 所有那几周的学习都会在考试的时候见成效。 | |
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| 2 | T to give someone all the money you have borrowed from them to buy something 清偿；还清 | Only another six months and the house will be paid off. 只要再过6个月，房款就能全部还清。 | |
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| 3 | T to stop employing a worker and give them any money they are owed 付清工资后解雇（某人） | Over 1,000 workers will be paid off if this factory closes. 如果这家工厂倒闭，就会有1000多工人在结清工资后被辞退。 | |
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| 4 | T to give someone money so that they will do something bad or dishonest for you 收买，买通（某人做坏事） | There were suspicions that officials had been paid off. 有人怀疑官员们被买通了。 | | | 4a | to give someone money so that they will not do something that will cause you problems, especially by telling people about something bad you have done 用钱封住（某人的嘴，尤指为了不让别人知道自己所做的恶行） | | They threatened to tell reporters about him unless he paid them off. 他们威胁说如果他不花钱封住他们的嘴，他们就要把他的事情告诉记者。 | | |
| - | ˌpay ˈout |
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| 1 | T to spend or pay money , especially a lot of money 花费，支付（尤指巨款） | We’ ve paid out thousands of pounds in health insurance over the years. 这几年来我们已经在健康保险方面花费了好几千英镑。 | | | 1a | I/T to provide money from an amount invested over a period of time 得到（投资的）回报 | | It’ ll be a few years before our investments start paying out. 我们的投资还要过好几年才会有所回报。 | | |
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| 2 | T technical if you pay out a rope , you gradually let it become straight and long so that it is no longer wound in a series of circles 放出，松出（绳索） |
| - | ˌpay ˈup |
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| | to pay money that you owe , especially when you are unwilling to pay （尤指不情愿地）赔付 | We’ re waiting for the insurance company to pay up. 我们在等保险公司赔付。 | |
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