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pay 词义辨析

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v.(动词)

pay, pay for: pay和pay for都表示“付钱”,其区别在于：当表示为所买的东西付钱时,一般用pay for,后面接表示货物的名词; 当表示向某人付款时,一般用pay,后面接表示受款人的名词。例如:
Will you pay the waiter?你愿意付钱给侍者吗?
We refused to pay them their wages.我们拒绝付给他们工资。
I'll pay for my ticket.我将为我的票付款。
How much did you pay for the book?那本书你付了多少钱?

pay down, pay up: 这两个短语的意思不同,前者的意思是付一部分款,后者是全部付清。例如:
He paid $500 down and agreed to pay the rest in monthly installments.他先付500美元,余款答应分月支付。
If you don't pay up,I'll resort to the law.如果你不全部还清,我就要诉诸法律了。

pay attention to,pay one's attentions to: 两者的意思不同。其区别在于：pay attention to的意思是“注意,留心”, pay one's attentions to的意思则是“向…献殷勤,向…求婚”。后者中的attentions用复数形式,前面还有物主代词, to后接人。例如:
You should pay more attention to your health.你应多加注意你的身体。
The newspapers report that at the moment he is paying his attentions to an Italian countess.报纸报道说当时他正在追求一位意大利女伯爵。

pay, compensate, indemnify, reimburse, remunerate, satisfy: 这组词均可表示“报偿”。其区别在于：
1.pay的基本意思是“偿还债务”,引申可表示多种意思,不一定指实际上的“金钱”。
2.compensate强调用相等的金钱或者价值相当的东西来“赔偿”失去的东西或“酬劳”他人付出的劳力。例如:
Many firms compensate their workers if they are hurt at work.许多公司都对工作时受伤的工人给予赔偿。
3.remunerate暗示或许诺要给予“报答”,但不一定兑现。例如:
I will remunerate you my debt for gratitude.我要报答我对你的感激之情。
We only hope we can remunerate you for the pleasure you have given us.我们只希望能够报答你给我们带来的快乐。
4.satisfy特指依据法律或法庭的判决加以“赔偿”,以满足其要求或还清某种债务。例如:
He had to satisfy all claims for the damage he had caused.他必须赔偿他造成的所有损失。
We are never late in satisfying him for his labour.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
5.reimburse专指为他人报销办事时的花销。例如:
All expenses will be reimbursed to the customer for any loss or damage.一切费用都能给你报销。
6.indemnify指允诺或实际赔偿损失,但赔偿额不一定同损失额持平。例如:
Their former enemies indemnified the victorious nations for the huge loss.战胜国要求战败国交付巨额赔款。

pay, cost, spend, take: 这组词的共同意思是“花费”,指某人买或做某事所花费的时间或金钱。其区别是：
1.spend和pay的主语只能是人; cost的主语是物或事; take后接时间时，主语也可以是人。此外，take和cost还可以用动词不定式或动词不定式短语作真实主语,而it为形式主语。例如:
I paid him $200 for this painting.我付他200美元买了这幅画。
She spent ten dollars shopping for food.她购买食品花了10美元。
The work cost me a lot of time and effort.这本著作花费了我大量的时间和精力。
We took a week to finish the work.我们花了一个星期完成这项工作。
It costs us a lot of money to build a house.盖房子花了我们很多钱。
It took me one year to read this book.我用一年时间读了这本书。
2.pay的搭配范围最窄,只接金钱; cost的搭配范围最宽,除接金钱和时间外，还可接劳力、精力、财富、健康、职位甚至生命等。例如:
“Are you paying cash?”“No,I will pay by cheque.”“你付现金吗?”“不,我用支票支付。”
Careless driving cost him his life.粗心大意地开车使他丧了命。
3.spend可接动名词，而cost, pay, take可接动词不定式。
4.spend, take, pay都可用于被动结构，而cost不能用于被动结构。

n.(名词)

pay, salary, wages: 这组词都有“薪水”“工资”的意思。其区别在于：
1.pay是普通用词,不可数,意思是“工资,薪水”,指工作所得到的酬金,也可特指发给军人的薪饷,强调付了钱,不如salary和wages正式。
2.salary一般指脑力劳动者的月薪或年俸。例如:
He lived on his salary.他靠薪水生活。
The company pays good salary.这个公司的薪金高。
His regular salary doesn't come to much, but he gets bonuses too.他的固定薪水并不高,但他还有奖金。
3.wages多指体力劳动者按天或按周领取的工钱。例如:
Her wages are one hundred dollars a week.她的工资为每周100美元。
He takes his wages home to his wife every Friday.他每星期五把工资带回家交给妻子。

cost，expend，spend，take，pay: 这些动词均含“花费”之意。
cost指花费时间、金钱、劳力等。其主语是物，而不能由人充当，也不用被动形式。
expend较正式用词，通常指为某一专门目的而花费大量金钱、时间或精力。
spend普通用词，与cost基本同义，但主语必须是人。
take普通用词，指需要占用空间、时间或精力等，其主语可以是人，也可以是一件事情。
pay“付款、给……报酬”，它可作及物动词也可作不及物动词。pay常用于以下几种句型：①Sb．pay（s）sb．money意为“某人付款给另一个人或某人给另一个人多少报酬”。

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