1. Workers in big firms receive a substantial part of their pay in the form of bonuses and overtime. 大公司的工人,工资很大一部分是奖金和加班费。
2. What people had to pay in direct and indirect taxes had not gone up since 1979. 人们须缴纳的直接税和间接税从1979年开始没涨过。
3. I'd prefer to pay regularly in small amounts, rather than have a large amount to pay in one go. 我宁愿定期小额付款,也不愿一次性大额支付。
4. Fourteen percent of the re-employed said the pay in their new job was less than half what they earned in their previous job. 14%的再就业者表示,他们新工作的薪酬还不到他们上一份工作收入的一半。
5. It was difficult for individual samurai overlords to increase their income because the amount of rice that farmers could be made to pay in taxes was not unlimited. 对于单个的武士统治者来说,要增加他们的收入是很困难的,因为农民可以用来纳税的大米数量并不是无限的。