N-COUNT Someone's wages are the amount of money that is regularly paid to them for the work that they do. 工资
His wages have gone up.
他的工资涨了。
V-T If a person, group, or country wages a campaign or a war, they start it and continue it over a period of time. 发动 (运动或战争)
The government, along with the three factions that had been waging a civil war, signed a peace agreement.
政府和发动了内战的3方一起签订了1份和平协议。
For them, history did nothing, it possessed no immense wealth nor waged battles: "It is man, real, living man who does all that."
对他们来说,历史是无辜的,它没有带来巨大的财富,也没有发动战争:“这一切都是人,真实的、活生生的人带来的。”
The rebels have waged a guerrilla war since 2001.
反叛者自2001年以来一直进行游击战争。
The media has waged a virulent hate campaign against her.
媒体向她发起了恶毒的诋毁运动。
The analyst said a war is being waged between Russia and the West, and Georgia is a battleground.
VOA: standard.2009.04.30
You may know that there are big fights being waged around the country now between governments that want restaurants to put calories on their labels -not on labels but on the restaurant menus, or on the menu boards in the restaurant, and the restaurant industry doesn't want this at all.
你们或许知道在政府与餐饮业间,正在进行一场大争斗,政府要求餐馆将食物的热量值写在标签上,不是标签而是餐馆菜单或菜单板上,而餐饮业很不愿意这样做
Duvall recently waged a successful battle against prostate cancer, but faced the prospect of losing his health insurance when he lost his job.
VOA: standard.2009.07.31
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