wage中等

U.S. customers historically tipped people they assumed were earning most of their income via tips, such as restaurant servers earning less than the minimum wage.

历史上，美国顾客给小费的对象，是那些他们认为大部分收入来自小费的人，比如收入低于最低工资的餐厅服务员。

Tipping has always been a vital source of income for workers in historically tipped services, like restaurants, where the tipped minimum wage can be as low as US $2.13 an hour.

对于传统上收小费的服务行业（如餐厅）的员工来说，小费一直是重要的收入来源，在这些行业中，领取小费员工的最低工资可低至每小时2.13美元。

Tip creep and tipflation are now further supplementing the income of many low-wage service workers.

小费蔓延和小费通胀如今正进一步补贴许多低薪服务人员的收入。

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。

So to increase employee wages without raising prices, more employers are succumbing to temptations of tip creep and tipflation.

因此，为了在不涨价的情况下提高员工工资，越来越多的雇主经不住小费蔓延和小费通胀的诱惑。

If not placing jobs at risk, to the extent employment protection laws constrain business owners from dismissing under-performing managers, those laws act as a constraint on firm productivity and therefore on workers’ wages.

即使没有使工作面临风险，只要就业保护法限制企业主解雇表现不佳的经理，这些法律就会制约企业的生产率，进而制约工人的工资。

For them, history did nothing, it possessed no immense wealth nor waged battles: “It is man, real, living man who does all that.”

在他们看来，历史什么也没做，它既不拥有巨大的财富，也不进行战斗：“做这一切的是人，现实的、活生生的人。”