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v. 付款，付出代价，给予注意52 次
However, this is a price we must pay for understanding the world.
然而，这是我们为了解世界而必须付出的代价。
Customers in the past nearly always paid tips after receiving a service, such as at the conclusion of a restaurant meal, after getting a haircut or once a pizza was delivered.
过去，顾客几乎总是在接受服务之后才付小费，比如在餐厅用餐结束时、理完发后或披萨送到时。
To ensure that all employees were paid fair wages, some restaurants banned tipping and increased prices, but this movement towards no-tipping services has largely fizzled out.
为了确保所有员工都能获得公平的工资，一些餐厅禁止收小费并提高了价格，但这场走向免小费服务的运动基本上已经不了了之。
are paid much less frequently.
支付频率低得多。
With more than 6.8 million on waitlists, healthcare is becoming increasingly inaccessible for those who cannot opt to pay for private treatment; and the cost of providing healthcare is increasingly squeezing our investment in other public services.
候诊名单上有超过680万人，对于那些无法选择自费接受私人治疗的人来说，医疗服务越来越难以获得；而提供医疗服务的成本正日益挤压我们对其他公共服务的投入。
And [despite] improvements to the premium, paid version, few people were making the upgrade.
而且，{{7}}高级付费版有所改进，却很少有人升级。
n. 工资，薪金23 次
It is true that CEO pay has gone up — top ones may make 300 times the pay of typical workers on average, and since the mid-1970s, CEO pay for large publicly traded American corporations has, by varying estimates, gone up by about 500%.
首席执行官的薪酬确实上涨了——顶级首席执行官的薪酬平均可能是普通员工的300倍，而且自20世纪70年代中期以来，据各种不同的估计，美国大型上市公司首席执行官的薪酬上涨了约500%。
It is true that CEO pay has gone up — top ones may make 300 times the pay of typical workers on average, and since the mid-1970s, CEO pay for large publicly traded American corporations has, by varying estimates, gone up by about 500%.
首席执行官的薪酬确实上涨了——顶级首席执行官的薪酬平均可能是普通员工的300倍，而且自20世纪70年代中期以来，据各种不同的估计，美国大型上市公司首席执行官的薪酬上涨了约500%。
It is true that CEO pay has gone up — top ones may make 300 times the pay of typical workers on average, and since the mid-1970s, CEO pay for large publicly traded American corporations has, by varying estimates, gone up by about 500%.
首席执行官的薪酬确实上涨了——顶级首席执行官的薪酬平均可能是普通员工的300倍，而且自20世纪70年代中期以来，据各种不同的估计，美国大型上市公司首席执行官的薪酬上涨了约500%。
The best model for understanding the growth of CEO pay is that of limited CEO talent in a world where business opportunities for the top firms are growing rapidly.
理解首席执行官薪酬增长的最佳模型是：在一个顶级公司商业机会迅速增长的世界里，首席执行官人才是有限的。
It’s not popular to say, but one reason their pay has gone up so much is that CEOs really have upped their game relative to many other workers in the U.S. economy.
这么说并不讨喜，但他们的薪酬上涨如此之多的一个原因是，相对于美国经济中的许多其他从业者，首席执行官们确实提升了自己的水平。
The common idea that high CEO pay is mainly about ripping people off doesn’t explain history very well.
认为首席执行官高薪主要是在敲诈他人的普遍观点并不能很好地解释历史。
a. （high-paid）高薪的派生5 次
team up with high-paid postgraduates.
与高薪的研究生合作
Also, some research suggests that the [explanation] for rising rates of mortality, mental-health problems, and addiction [among] poorly-educated, middle-aged people is a shortage of well-paid jobs.
此外，一些研究表明，受教育程度低的中年人{{9}}死亡率、心理健康问题和成瘾率上升的{{8}}是高薪工作的短缺。
While younger people are somewhat more optimistic than their elders about the prospects for those starting out today, big majorities in both groups believe those “just getting started in life” face a tougher climb than earlier generations in reaching such signpost achievements as securing a good-paying job, starting a family, managing debt, and finding affordable housing.
尽管年轻人对如今刚起步者的前景比长辈们稍微乐观一些，但两个群体中的大多数人都认为，那些“刚刚开启人生”的人在实现诸如获得一份高薪工作、成家、管理债务和找到负担得起的住房等标志性成就方面，要比前几代人面临更艰难的攀登。
good-paying jobs are less available.
高薪工作更难找到了。
In today’s world, it has become normal that well-paid executives should not be accountable for what happens in the organisations that they run.
在当今世界，高薪的高管们不对自己所管理的机构中发生的事情负责，已经成为常态。
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People must pay attention to the fact that some kinds of trees do not produce seeds annually.
人们必须注意到，有些种类的树木并非每年都结种子。
paying due attention to social factors.
对社会因素给予应有的重视。
Pay greater attention to boosting rural economies.
更加重视促进农村经济。
In the quest for the perfect lawn, homeowners across the country are taking a shortcut — and it is the environment that is paying the price.
为了追求完美的草坪，全国各地的房主都在走捷径——而为此付出代价的是环境。
In this age of generalists, it pays to have specific knowledge or skills.
在这个通才的时代，拥有专门的知识或技能是有好处的。
It failed to pay due attention to patients’ rights.
它没有充分重视患者的权利。