1. Today's families have budgeted to the limits of their new two-paycheck status. 如今家庭的开支预算达到了新的双薪家庭的极限。
2. With two mortgages and two young children to care for, Cindy couldn't imagine how to stretch her husband's paycheck to keep her family fed. 辛蒂有两个抵押贷款和两个年幼的孩子要照顾，她无法想象如何增加她丈夫的薪水来养她的家人。
3. That's why I was so disappointed when an important bill to give women more power to stop pay disparities - the Paycheck Fairness Act - was blocked by just two votes in the Senate. 我对给与妇女更多消除工资差距能力的重要法案——公平薪酬法案——在参议院两次投票中受阻感到非常失望。
4. Last spring, because of state budget cuts, his hours were reduced: over the summer, he got only two weeks pay, and in September he got no paycheck at all. 去年春天，由于州里缩减了财政预算，他的工作时数减少了：整个夏天，他才拿到两周的薪水，九月份则根本没有进账。
5. Until two years ago, he financed his mission work out of his paycheck or by begging aid wherever he could find it. 直到两年前，他都是在靠自己的工资或尽己所能寻求援助来资助自己的神圣工作的。
