1·Miners were low paid and generally lived in towns owned and operated by the mine owner.
煤矿工人的收入很低,通常居住在由矿主兴建和管理的小镇上。
2·"The very fact that Foxconn needs to raise wages by 70% to stabilise its workforce, shows how low paid the workers were there, " he says.
“富士康提高工资70%是为了留住他们的员工,他们之前的工资实在是太低了。” 他说。
3·These people do not start a career after high school or university but instead usually live as so called parasite singles with their parents and earn some money with low skilled and low paid jobs.
这些人高中或者大学毕业后没有正式工作,而是跟父母住在一起过着所谓“单身寄生虫”的生活,偶尔从事一些低技术含量、低报酬的工作赚点钱。
4·It's a straight choice between low-paid jobs and no jobs.
这是一个有关低收入工作和没有工作两者之间的选择。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
5·In the U.S., minorities and immigrants have generally gone into low-paid, unskilled jobs.
在美国,少数民族和移民通常从事低报酬、无需专门技能的工作。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
6·For workers, especially low-paid workers, who desperately need their jobs yet know they can be easily replaced, gamification may feel more like the Hunger Games.
对于工人,尤其是低收入工人来说,游戏化可能更像是饥饿游戏,他们非常需要工作岗位,但又知道自己很容易被取代。
7·The first manifests itself in our tireless search for the magical level at which welfare grants are big enough to meet basic needs but small enough to make low-paid work attractive.
第一个体现在我们孜孜不倦地追求平衡的水平上,在这个水平上,福利津贴要大到足以满足基本需要,但又要小到足以使低收入工作具有吸引力。
8·Without hope for the future, hard work at a low-paid job makes no sense.
如果对未来不抱有希望,那么在一份低薪工作上努力显得毫无意义。
9·I was a single parent of four small children, working at a low-paid job.
我是一个单亲母亲,有四个小孩,工作收入很低。
10·Few of them want to do such a low-paid job.
他们中很少有人愿意从事如此低薪的工作。