In one morning, a young functionary decided to ask his boss to give a raise to him.
在某一天的一个早上，一位年轻的白领终于决定要求老板为他加薪。
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。
Just shy of 50, she says she'd never have wanted to do what her mother did—give up a career to raise a family.
年近50的她说，她从来没有想要做母亲做过的事——放弃事业来养家糊口。
Elephants give new meaning to the phrase: it takes a village to raise a child.
大象赋予了这句话新的含义：养育一个孩子需要一个村庄。
Taking on that new project at work might give you the confidence to ask for a raise, chase a promotion or even change careers.
开始做一项工作上的新项目可能会给你要求加薪，努力升值或者甚至换工作的自信。
It has raised your health insurance premiums and left your employer with less money to give you a decent raise.
它提高了你的健康保险保费，并使你的雇主手头给你一个体面加薪的资金减少。
A: After ten weeks of ignoring us, the boss finally said he'd give us both a raise.
在对我们不理不睬十个星期以后，老板终于说要给我们两个加薪了。
A new Facebook craze is sweeping the social networking site, where woman give details of their bra colour, to help raise awareness for breast cancer.
社交网站Facebook日前刮起一阵旋风，女性用户纷纷晒出自己文胸的颜色，以提高人们对乳腺癌的防治意识。
Faced with this confrontation, if the request is reasonable, you might investigate the situation. You might even give the employee a raise.
面对这种对峙，如果他们的要求合理，你可能会调查一下具体情况，甚至可能还会提高这位员工的工资。
I’m only in the stock market to raise money to open more stores and to give our employees a stake in the company.
我的公司之所以上市，只是为了筹集更多的资金开设更多的超市，也给我们的员工提供一个购买公司股份的机会。
Males don't help the female build a nest, incubate the eggs, or raise the chicks-all they give her are their genes. The females are thus very choosy about which male they pick.
雄鸟不会帮助雌鸟建巢、孵卵或哺育雏鸟——它们能够奉献的只有基因而已，因此，雌鸟在选择雄鸟时格外挑剔。
We're not sure what that is for except perhaps to give the developers a bit for the work they are doing to raise awareness.
我们不确定在做什么，除了可能让那些开发人员意识到他们正在做什么。
For that, I give it my highest recommendation, and raise a glass to Mr William Makepeace Thackeray.
为此，我极力推荐它，并举杯向威廉·萨克雷先生致敬。
The fourth and fifth couples started to raise the price with one saying "how about give you two grands more and we call it a deal." You don't need to show it to other people!
第四对夫妻和第五对夫妻开始往上加价，其中一个说，我加你两万，就这么定了，你不要再给人看了。
To give you some examples, consider a single mother who's been struggling to raise her children and doing it all alone in every sense of the word, what would make her day on mother's day?
举些例子吧，想想一个单身妈妈，一个人努力地不遗余力地抚养她的孩子，她的母亲节是什么？
This is clever, in that it would spare Republicans from voting to raise the debt ceiling (and indeed give them three opportunities to vote against it) while sparing America a default.
（读着还是别扭。。。 不太理解）这是一个明智的决定，因为可以在美国不违约的情况下不让共和党投票提高债务上限（的确，这样会给他们提供三次投反对票的机会）。
If I manage to get all my preparation done on time from now on, he said he would give me a raise.
如果从现在开始我能准时完成我的准备工作，他说他会给我加薪。
His tightfisted employer was unwilling to give him a raise.
他那吝啬的雇主不肯给他加薪。
They expected me to succeed, to find a man, to raise a family, and give them a grandson.
他们希望我能够有所成就，找一个男人，组建自己的家庭，让他们抱外孙。
And because no parent who works full-time should have to raise a family in poverty, it's time for Congress to follow the lead of state after state, get on the bandwagon, and give America a raise.
只要有全职工作的父母，其家庭生活就不应该陷入贫困，因此，现在是时候让国会跟上各州的脚步，赶上最后的班车，提高美国的工资标准。
I'm not going to say where I heard it, but it is said that the board has agreed to give all the employees a raise.
我不会透露我是从哪里听来的，不过据说董事会已经同意给所有员工加薪。
Her departure was a slap in the face to the manager, who had refused to give her a raise.
她的辞职对拒绝给她加薪的老板是最好的还击。
If you can reduce the price by 2% and give us three months to raise money, we'd be willing to give you a 10% down payment.
如果你愿意把价格降低2%，并且给我们三个月的时间筹款，我们就愿先付10%的订金。
After ten weeks of ignoring us, the boss finally said he'd give us both a raise.
在对我们不理不睬十个星期以后，老板终于说要给我们两个加薪了。
After ten weeks of ignoring us, the boss finally said he'd give us both a raise.
在对我们不理不睬十个星期以后，老板终于说要给我们两个加薪了。
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