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美音:[´peımənt ]点这儿播放单词美音发声
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n.付款,支付,报酬,偿还,报应,惩罚

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payment


/'peɪmənt; `pemənt/
n ~ (for sth)
1 [U] paying or being paid 支付; 付款; 缴纳; 报酬
*We would be grateful for prompt payment of your account. 如即付款无任感激.
* Payment of subscriptions should be made to the club secretary. 会费应交给俱乐部秘书.
2 [C] sum of money (to be) paid 付出的或要付的款项
*The television can be paid for in ten monthly payments of 50. 这电视机可月付50英镑10次付清.
* Would you accept
50 as payment (for the work)? (这工作)给你50英镑你愿意做吗?
3 [U, sing] reward for sth 报答; 报偿
*We'd like you to accept this book in payment for your kindness. 我们奉送此书聊表谢忱.
* (ironic 反语) Personal abuse was the only payment he got for his efforts. 他努力所得只是一顿臭骂.

payment


n
[C]
an amount of money that has been or must be paid
 You can make a payment in any bank.
 Employees may occasionally receive bonus payments .
 The country cannot meet the payments on its £80 billion foreign debt.
 She agreed to repay the loan in monthly payments of £125.
 Discounts are offered for cash payments .
 the interest payments on your credit card bill
 They fell behind on their mortgage payments .
[U]
the act of paying for something
payment of
 There are severe penalties for late payment of taxes.
payment in
 Most hotels here accept payment in dollars.
 Payment can be made by cheque or credit card.
 We do accept payment in instalments (=paying in small amounts over a period of time) .
 She demanded payment in advance .
in payment for sth
(=in order to pay for something)
 cheques received in payment for goods supplied
on payment of sth
(=when an amount has been paid)
 Any item can be reserved on payment of a deposit.
payment in kind
a way of paying for something with goods or services instead of money
COLLOCATES for sense 1
make a payment
receive a payment
meet the payments on something (=afford to pay something)
monthly payment
cash payment
down payment (=a small payment for something you are buying, when you will pay the rest later)
interest payment
mortgage payment

1. Each demanded some payment that was overdue: twelve shillings for the furniture and oilcloth; one pound four and one penny for the General District and Special Rates; and one pound one and fivepence halfpenny for Poor Rate.
    三封信都是催债的,而且每项款都已经过了期。家具和油布十二先令;统税和特税一镑四先令一便士;济贫税一镑一先令五个半便士。

2. This money is in payment for the work you have done.
    这笔钱是对你所做工作所付的款项。

3. "Someone may have an estate of $1 billion and he may not want a second spouse to get a payment of half a billion.
    "有人可能有价值10亿美元的财产,而他又不想让第二个配偶分得5亿美元。

4. An interesting example of this kind of payment is provided by the story of a sales manager who had been trying for some months to sell road machinery to the Minister of Works of a Caribbean country.
    有个故事是说明这类支出的有趣例子:有个销售经理几个月来一直试图向加勒比地区一个国家的建工部长推销道路工程机械。

5. Genetic material taken from blood samples could be used for commercial purposes without adequate payment made to the groups that provide the DNA.
    从当地人血样中提取的基因物质可被用于商业目的,却不给DNA提供者以足够的报酬。

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