salary
英语
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[编辑]词源
[编辑]源自中古英語 salarie，源自盎格魯-諾曼語 salarie，源自古法語 salaire，源自拉丁語 salārium (“薪水”)，形容词salārius (“盐的”)的中性形式，源自sal (“salt”)。有很多人尝试解释为什么拉丁语中“薪水”一词派生自表示“盐的”的形容词。多数人认为salārium实为salārium argentum (“盐钱”)的缩写，但是这个短语不可考。比较流行的理论认为短语指“盐构成的钱”，因为据说古罗马的士兵的军饷是用盐来支付的，但是在古籍中并没有任何证据支持这种说法。还有理论认为它指“用来买盐等日用品的钱”。[1]
发音
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- 同音詞：celery (salary–celery合併)
- 韻部：-æləɹi
- 斷字：sal‧a‧ry
名词
[编辑]salary (複數 salaries)
- 薪水，工资
- Template:RQ:Shakespeare Hamlet
- 1668 July 3rd, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 547
- Andrew Houſtoun and Adam Muſhet, being Tackſmen of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year.
- 1935, Upton Sinclair, chapter XX, in I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked, page 109:
- I used to say to our audiences: “It is difficult to get a man understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”
- （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）
衍生词汇
[编辑]派生語彙
[编辑]- → 日語：サラリー (sararī)
参见
[编辑]动词
[编辑]salary (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 salaries，現在分詞 salarying，簡單過去時和過去分詞 salaried)
- 给...支付薪水
形容词
[编辑]salary (比較級 more salary，最高級 most salary)
参考资料
[编辑]- ↑ Gainsford, Peter (11 January 2017 (last accessed)), “Salt and salary: were Roman soldiers paid in salt?”, in Kiwi Hellenist: Modern Myths about the Ancient World
