Among the millions with hourly earnings at or below the minimum wage level, the overwhelming majority are from multiple-earner, relatively affluent families.
在每小时工资处于或低于最低工资水平的数百万人中,绝大多数来自有多收入者、相对富裕的家庭。
As a result, they have lost the parachute they once had in times of financial setback—a back-up earner (usually Mom) who could go into the workforce if the primary earner got laid off or fell sick.
因此,它们已经失去了在经济萧条时期曾经持有的“保护伞”——一个后备挣钱者(通常是母亲),她可以在主要挣钱者失业或者病倒的时候出去工作。
Li Shanshan is a typical wage earner.
李珊珊是典型的工薪一族。
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
你不能通过从发工资的那里直接抽取金钱来援助工薪阶层。
Tourism has been Thailand's biggest earner of foreign exchange since 1982.
自从1982年以来,旅游业一直是泰国最大的外汇来源。
Interestingly, Chris is the top earner in the family. But Gwyneth is goopier.
有趣的是,克里斯是赚得多的那个,但格温妮丝长得更好看。
In Botswana, Okavango tourism is second to only diamond mining as a foreign-exchange earner.
在博茨瓦纳,奥卡万戈旅游业是仅次于开采钻石来赚取外汇的行业。
These two gigs add up to the biggest annual sales-tax earner for the city, Christmas included.
这两大节日加起来为该市带来年度最大的销售税收益,超过圣诞节。
One-earner married couples tend to gain relative to either two-earner couples or individuals.
单职工夫妇往往比双职工夫妇或个人获益更多。
Sniffing out fraud and shorting its perpetrators has been a nice earner for Asia’s hedge funds.
对于亚洲对冲基金而言,能够及早发现舞弊和卖空便是一个很好的优势。
There were particular fears that tourism, a big earner of foreign exchange, would be badly hit.
人们特别担心作为赚取大量外汇收入的旅游业会因此受到重创。
The price of bauxite, Jamaica's other big earner, has more than halved since its peak last July.
而牙买加另一大利润来源——铝土矿的价格自从去年七月达到顶峰后便下降了逾一半。
For a fourth consecutive year, the Spanish club was the biggest revenue earner in world football.
连续四年,这个西班牙俱乐部一直是世界足坛上收入最高的俱乐部。
The data underline the challenges faced by Hollywood from the loss of what used to be a steady earner.
这意味着,好莱坞昔日稳赚不赔的买卖正面临严峻的挑战。
When my son was born, we became a single-earner household and made the requisite 'sacrifices' to do it.
当我儿子出生的时候,我们家里只有一个人挣钱,因此做出了一些必须的“牺牲”。
For the million Spanish families who saw a wage-earner lose their job in 2008, Christmas was a lot grimmer.
2008年,西班牙数以百万计的家庭亲眼目睹了靠工资度日的人们下岗待业,圣诞节更是雪上加霜。
The result being that you’re in a position where one wage earner will be taking care of four retired people.
但这种政策的结果是,一个赚取工薪的人将要照料四个退休的老人。
I'm simply a wage-earner, and I find it difficult enough to raise one child, so I won't consider the second.
我只是个工薪阶层,而且我发现养一个孩子挺难的,所以我不会考虑第二个的。
In recent years, tourism has grown very quickly, overtaking sugar cane and coffee as the country's top earner.
近年来,当地的旅游业迅猛发展,一跃成为该国的首要收入来源,超过了甘蔗和咖啡。
If the income difference was very small, being a top earner in the poorer world would probably be more satisfying.
如果实际的收入差别非常小,那么做一个更贫穷社会里的顶层收入者可能会更让人满意。
Household chores often get in the way when dual-earner couples want to unwind after a stress-filled day on the job.
当双职工夫妻想在压力满满的一个工作日后放松一下时,家务琐事无疑是个麻烦。
Tourism has been ear-marked as the primary foreign exchange earner, with more visitors coming to Zanzibar each year.
随着每年越来越多的游客来到这里,旅游业已经被认定为第一重要的争取外汇的行业。
Besides, men will be less burdened and is able to enjoy life rather than working too hard as the only money earner.
此外,男人会减轻一些负担,并能享受生活而不至于对工作疲于奔命,并且不再是家庭唯一的资金来源。
For a happy marriage, Professor Teachman recommends a 60:40 split in income, with the husband being the highest earner.
关于幸福的婚姻,蒂奇曼教授建议男女收入比应为60:40,而且丈夫应是赚钱最多的那个。
He promotes journaling software and other products, but he admits his biggest earner is promoting products he didn't create.
他推销一些写日志的软件和其它产品,但他说他最大的赢利点不是卖产品而是卖方法。
Russia, for instance, previously a big earner for inbound M&A work, has become “100 per cent a debt adviser business”, Mr Pécoux said.
在俄罗斯,比方说,以前可以从入境收并购业务中大赚特赚,现在“100%都是债务重组咨询了”,裴高斯先生说。
The estate of Mary and Louis Myers, Ohio arts patrons, provided the first 20 lots of the evening, but the chief earner was Andy Warhol.
俄亥俄收藏家玛丽·路易斯·迈尔斯(Louis Myers)夫妇的20件藏品是首先开拍的,不过主要的赢家当属安迪·沃霍尔的作品。
I'm speculating, but it seems reasonable to me that what's causing this decline, or much of it, is the rise of the two-earner household.
我猜测,双职工家庭的日益增多导致了迁移率下降或者是大幅下降,但是对于我来说,这似乎是合乎情理的。
To put this in perspective, he could spend in 13 minutes what a minimum-wage earner brings home after an entire year of the daily grind.
换个角度说,他13分钟花的钱相当于最低收入者日复一日的辛勤工作的全年所得。
To put this in perspective, he could spend in 13 minutes what a minimum-wage earner brings home after an entire year of the daily grind.
换个角度说,他13分钟花的钱相当于最低收入者日复一日的辛勤工作的全年所得。
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