underpaid

英 [ˌʌndəˈpeɪd] 美 [ˌʌndərˈpeɪd]

adj.  报酬过低的; 酬不抵劳的
v.  给…报酬过低; 少付…工资
underpay的过去分词和过去式

过去式:underpaid过去分词:underpaid

经济

BNC.37309 / COCA.30557



牛津词典

adj.

  1. 报酬过低的;酬不抵劳的
    not paid enough for the work you do
    1. Nurses complain of being overworked and underpaid .
      护士抱怨工作劳累过度而报酬过低。

柯林斯词典

  1. ADJ-GRADED 所得报酬偏低的;工资偏低的
    People who are underpaid are not paid enough money for the job that they do.
    1. Women are frequently underpaid for the work that they do.
      女性工作所得的报酬常常偏低。
    2. ...underpaid factory workers.
      工资偏低的工厂工人

双语例句

  1. Women are frequently underpaid for the work that they do.
    女性工作所得的报酬常常偏低。
  2. Like many recent college graduates working as underpaid interns, I sometimes feel out-of-sorts.
    一如许多刚刚走出校门,从事待遇微薄的实习生工作的大学生,我有时心情很差,总想发脾气。
  3. You complain about being overworked or underpaid.
    抱怨工作量过大或薪水太低。
  4. Fred Katayama has more on America's most underpaid.
    佛瑞德片山将详细报道美国报酬最低的劳动者的情况。
  5. First, do some due diligence to determine if you are being underpaid in general.
    首先,做一些调查,看看你的薪资是否真的偏低。
  6. The rest of the hungry are underpaid or unemployed workers.
    其余的饥饿人口是报酬过低或失业在家的工人。
  7. Labor Unions have been working to organize teaching assistants who feel overworked and underpaid.
    工会已经为那些感到超时工作和低工资的教学助理提供帮助。
  8. He underpaid me for the work by10.
    我做这工作他少给了我10英镑工资。
  9. We're all overworked and underpaid.
    我们都超时工作而且工资很低。
  10. I am underpaid and undervaiued.
    我的工资和能力都被低估了。
  11. It came close to succeeding, and hostile takeovers became as rare in the1990s as an underpaid chief executive.
    就在并购距成功仅一步之遥时,时间到了90年代,此时恶意收购已经和低薪总裁一起,成了稀罕物。
  12. But being an underpaid childlike parasite does tend to make you feel useless.
    但是,做个薪酬微薄、充满孩子气的寄生虫,常常会让人感到自己很没用。
  13. He felt undervalued and underpaid.
    我感到对他评价过低,报酬也过低。
  14. It says that your colleagues are slovenly and that the company has outsourced its cleaning to underpaid cleaners.
    据说,你的同事都很邋遢,公司把厕所清洁工作外包给了报酬过低的清洁工。
  15. She complained, with reason, that she had been underpaid.
    她抱怨她工资一直很低,这也不无道理。
  16. Yet I don't accept that your experiment has been a disaster, as you learnt two important lessons: first, you don't like feeling underpaid; and second, jobs that promise to be interesting often aren't.
    不过,我不认为你这场试验一无是处,因为你从中学到了两个重要教训:第一,你不喜欢感到工资低于应得的水平;第二,乍看之下很有意思的工作,其实往往不然。
  17. Jeff: are you "overworked, underpaid and dissatisfied"?
    杰夫:你对“超负荷工作,待遇低很不满意,”是吗?
  18. To get what you think you deserve, you'll definitely want to know why you have been underpaid.
    要获得你认为应得的收入,你肯定会想了解为什么现在的收入那么少。
  19. Teachers were shockingly underpaid.
    教师的报酬低得令人吃惊。
  20. Bill was an underpaid intern, and we needed Martha's income to survive.
    Bill当时是一个收入很低的实习医师,我们需要Martha的收入来维持生活。
  21. They are grubbing away in underpaid teaching posts.
    他们在薪金微薄的教学岗位上辛勤工作着。
  22. Police and courts are understaffed, underpaid and susceptible to bribes and threats.
    警察和法庭人手不足,报酬太低,无法抵御贿赂,抵抗威胁。
  23. Jeff: Are you "overworked, underpaid and dissatisfied"? He is weighed with responsibilities beyond his capacity.
    杰夫:你对超负荷工作,待遇低很不满意,是吗?他担负着超负荷的责任。
  24. They're ridiculously underpaid, especially as the work is so dangerous.
    他们的报酬低得可笑,而工作却很危险。
  25. Years of being an underpaid and underappreciated factory worker had made him into a querulous, bitter old man.
    多年来身为一个低收入、低地位的工厂劳工,使他成为一个爱发牢骚、满腹委屈的老头。
  26. These fellows get the money and the work is done by underpaid subordinates whom the world never hears of.
    这些家伙拿钱不做事,把工作交给工资极少,不为人知的下属去干。
  27. Being underpaid for a job you've done better than a man.
    工作比男人出色,赚的却比他们少。
  28. Our staff complain of being underpaid and overwork.
    我们的职员抱怨挣的少,干的多。
  29. Nurses are overworked and underpaid.
    护士的工作过重而报酬过低。
  30. I extend my congratulations to the President for a fine decision and my condolences to Ben for having to spend the next four years overworked and underpaid.
    我祝贺总统作出了一个很好的决定,也对本不得不在接下去的四年中过度工作和报酬过低表示深切慰问。