（高頻詞彙）pay用法綜述

在美國當代英語語料庫統計的20000個常用詞中，pay位居常用詞第286位，在4.5億個單詞中出現了133133次。今天就帶大家一起來系統學習pay的用法。

頻率最高的搭配：

Pay attention>pay tax >pay price>pay bill

詞形變化：

Pays，paid，paid

Pay詞義解析：

give Money to someone for something you want to buy or for services provided 付費；付酬

How much did you pay for the products?

你買那些商品花了多少錢？

I pay my taxes.

我繳付稅款。

I'll pay you the $5 back tomorrow.

我明天還你那5美元。

I paid the driver (in/with) cash.

我付給司機現金。

2. to give money to someone for work that they have done 付錢（給…），支付（…）報酬

Laywer may be boring but at least it pays well.

當律師可能很乏味，但至少收入可觀。

Most of these women are very poorly paid and work in terrible conditions.

這些婦女大多工資很低，且工作條件惡劣。

3. to give a profit or advantage to someone or something 有收益，有利可圖，有好處

It never pays to take risks where human safety is concerned.

凡是涉及人身安全時，冒險決不會有什麼好處。

4. to give or do something 給予，致以；進行

The commander paid tribute to the courage of his troops.

司令員高度讚揚了部隊官兵的勇敢無畏。

It's always nice to be paid a compliment.

被人讚揚總是件好事。

A crowd of people gathered to pay their respects to the soldier.

一羣人聚集在一起向軍人致敬。

詞組搭配：

1. pay sb back

to do something unpleasant to someone because they have done something unpleasant to you 使（某人）付出代價，向（某人）報復

He swore he'd pay her back for all she'd done to him.

他發誓要讓她爲對他所做的一切付出代價。

2. pay for sth

to be punished for doing something bad to someone else, or to suffer because of a mistake that you made 爲…付出代價，因…得到報應

We all pay for our mistakes in some way at some time.

我們都會在某個時候以某種方式爲我們所犯的錯誤付出代價。

He tricked me and I'm going to make him pay for it!

他欺騙了我，我會讓他得到報應的！

3. pay sth in

to put money into a bank account 把（錢）存入銀行賬戶

If you go to the bank, will you pay these money in for me?

你去銀行的話能幫我把這些支票存進去嗎？

4. pay sth off

to pay back money that you owe 還清（欠款）

We should be able to pay off the debt within two years.

我們應該能在兩年內還清債務。

俚語：

1. pay through the nose

to pay too much money for something 付費過高；花錢過多

We paid through the nose to get the car fixed.

我們修這輛車花了大價錢，結果還是不能正常行駛。

2. put paid to sth

to finish or destroy something 結束，了結；毀掉

A knee injury has put paid to her chances of getting into the final.

一次膝蓋受傷斷送了她進入決賽的機會。

3. pay dividends

If something you do pays dividends, it causes good results at a time in the future. （將來）有好處，得到好結果

All that extra training is paying dividends.

所有那些額外訓練都會得到回報的。