I thought I wanted a career, turns out I just wanted pay checks.

我以为自己想要一份工作，后来我发现我只是想要工资单。

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Dormitory parents and cafeteria workers receive pay checks from the school.

宿舍的舍长和自助食堂的工人从学校领到了工资。

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Thanks to the tax cuts we passed, Americans' pay checks are a little bigger today.

由于我们通过的减税法案，美国人今天收到的支票金额要比过去多。

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So consumers who want to eat shrimp are faced with two choices: trust that random spot checks find any problems with seafood imports or pay more for domestic, wild harvested shrimp.

VOA: standard.2010.05.27

AIG CEO Liddy's testimony Wednesday to the House committee comes as lawmakers absorb details of the company pay outs, including a report from New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo that 73 AIG employees received bonus checks of $1 million or more.

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

The paid professional doom seekers who adorn the media, get their pay checks (usually indirectly) from the uber-wealthy.

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Hollywood's leading ladies have plenty to boast about financially, until you compare their pay checks to those of their male counterparts.

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In fact, under the Uniform Commercial Code, banks in the United States are not legally obligated to pay checks older than six months ( link).

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