If you can give your boss something he or she needs (a new client or a sizable contract, for example) just before merit pay decisions are being made, you are more likely to get the raise you want.

如果你能在决定绩效工资之前满足老板的需求（比如一个新客户或一份大合同），你就更有可能得到你想要的加薪。

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They even used cacao seeds as a form of money to pay taxes or give as holy offerings to the gods.

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Patrons pay him and give him drinks to go up and repeat their words to other people in the bar.

当某人给钱,让他传话。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Aristotle appears to give two different accounts in the opening pages of the book that you might pay attention to.

亚里士多德在其书开头前几页,给出了两种不同的说法,你们要多加留意。

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Just this week a plan was approved to give pay raises to two university presidents in California.

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Typically, studios sign five-year licensing deals with pay channels and renegotiating those deals to give the pay channel the ability to show films in different ways (over the Internet, on a cellphone, whatever) can be difficult.

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True, small nominal pay rises will still give a real pay increase if inflation is lower.

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