I: How about your present pay?

I：你现在的薪水是多少？

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There's unpredictable weather, changes in soil quality, and the ever-present possibility that pests and diseases may pay a visit.

天气不可预测，土壤质量发生变化，害虫和疾病随时都可能出现。

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But I am not content with the present C not when there are workers who are still out of jobs, families who still cannot pay their bills."

VOA: special.2009.05.02

This is the trouble with the present pay-as-you-go system: it relies on future governments to keep their predecessors' promises.

ECONOMIST: Social Security meets Wall Street | The

Instead, they should present pay plans in the context of the basic, perennial goals those plans are designed--or should be designed--to achieve.

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Report author Tom Gash says that the present pay structure is a disincentive for personnel to develop specialist skills in vital fields like tackling serious crime, serious violence and gang-related gun crime.

BBC: NEWS | UK | Report reignites police pay row