Wages

(noun.) a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing; 'the wages of sin is death'; 'virtue is its own reward'.

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• I took my wages to my pillow, and passed the night counting them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The proprietors and cultivators finally pay both the wages of all the workmen of the unproductive class, and the profits of all their employers. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The wages of labour, however, are much higher in North America than in any part of England. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The dad raised their wages all round to recompense them for the annoyance. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• And my wages? 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• It must always, in the long-run, be advanced to him by his immediate employer, in the advanced state of wages. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Twelve shillings a week, even when they are an old man's wages, bury themselves. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• You say poor labourers cannot afford to buy bread at a high price, unless they had higher wages. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Not only the profits of stock, but the rent of land, and the wages of labour, would necessarily be more or less diminished by its removal. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• He does not, therefore, dispute about wages, but is willing to employ labour at any price. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• You are a rich man, upon my life, to waste wages in that way. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I saw these advertisements about harpooners, and high wages, so I went to the shipping agents, and they sent me here. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• His whole gains, however, are commonly called profit, and wages are, in this case, too, confounded with profit. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• First, the wages of labour vary with the ease or hardship, the cleanliness or dirtiness, the honourableness or dishonourableness, of the employment. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• His high wages arise altogether from the hardship, disagreeableness, and dirtiness of his work. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

校对:塞勒斯特