pension
英 ['penʃ(ə)n]
美 ['pɛnʃən]
- n. 退休金，撫恤金；津貼；膳宿費
- vt. 發給養老金或撫恤金
助記提示
1. pens- "pay" + -ion.
2. => "payment for services," especially "reward, payment out of a benefice".
3. => regular payment in consideration of past service.
4. => boarding house, boarding school.
中文詞源
pension 養老金來自拉丁語pendere,懸掛，稱量，支付，詞源同pendulum,dependent,pound.-s,過去分詞格。引申詞義定期支付的錢，養老金。
pension 廉價小旅店來自拉丁語pendere,懸掛，稱量，支付，詞源同pendulum,dependent,pound.-s,過去分詞格。 引申詞義定期支付的錢，後用於指寄宿學校，現用於指法國等國家的廉價小旅店。
英文詞源
- pension
- pension: see ponder
- pension (n.)
- mid-14c., "payment for services," especially "reward, payment out of a benefice" (early 14c., in Anglo-Latin), from Old French pension "payment, rent" (13c.) and directly from Latin pensionem (nominative pensio) "a payment, installment, rent," from past participle stem of pendere "pay, weigh" (see pendant). Meaning "regular payment in consideration of past service" first recorded 1520s. Meaning "boarding house, boarding school" first attested 1640s, from French, and usually in reference to places in France or elsewhere on the Continent.
- pension (v.)
- 1640s, "to live in a pension," from pension (n.) or else from French pensionner. Meaning "to grant a pension" is from 1702. Related: Pensioned; pensioning.
雙語例句
- 1. He lived on an invalidity pension which came as a weekly giro.
- 他靠每周領取的作為病殘養老金的直接轉賬救濟支票過日子。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. He is moving ever closer to drawing his pension.
- 他就要領取養老金了。
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- 3. The main beneficiaries of pension equality so far have been men.
- 迄今為止，男性一直是退休金均等政策的主要受益者。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. Employees can contract out of their employer's occupational pension scheme.
- 雇員可以退出雇主的職業養老金計劃。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. One of the most important changes concerns the investment of pension contributions.
- 最重要的一個變化涉及養老保險基金的投資。
來自柯林斯例句