It is difficult to envisage wages taking off when the public sector is shedding jobs and facing a two-year pay freeze and there are 2.5m people unemployed, close to 8% of the Labour force.

当公共部门正在减少工作岗位，面临两年的工资冻结，并有占劳动总量接近8%的250万人失业的时候，正视工资减少是困难的。

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A third of companies reviewing pay since last August have imposed a pay freeze of up to a year.

自去年8月以来，在审检工资发放的公司中，有三分之一已经强行实施工资冻结长达1年。

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I believe for international students, you'll have to pay around 13,000 pounds a year. It's just a bit more than the local students.

我认为作为国际学生，你每年要支付大约13000英镑，而这只比本地学生多一些。

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They criticized a proposal for industrialized nations to pay developing countries ten billion dollars a year over three years.

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When they left, Julius Caesar, out of his own pocket, gave every soldier in those legions a year's pay.

他们离开时，恺撒用自己的钱，给那些士兵发了一年的俸禄。

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This is insurance that you pay each year for insurance in that year and it does not build a cash value.

为了这种保险可以持续生效,你每年都要缴纳保费,保费不产生现金价值

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Public sector workers are facing a five-year pay freeze under plans to cut the spending deficit.

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And, like other public-sector workers, the police already face a two-year pay freeze from September.

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Today, the President made one of those: proposing a two-year pay freeze for all civilian federal workers.

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