| 词组 | pay |
| 释义 | pay [paid, paid, paying] pay back 1. pay sb/sth back • pay back sb/sth • pay sb back sth to give someone the money that you owe them: ▪ Send me the money for a plane ticket home and I'll pay you back, okay, Mom? ▪ I have ten years to pay back my student loans. ▪ Did I pay you back that $5? ■ SIMILAR TO: repay 2. pay sb back to do something unpleasant to someone as a punishment, because they have done something unpleasant to you + for ▪ Mrs Ruslik vowed to find her daughter's killer and pay him back for what he did. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑get back pay for pay for sth to suffer or be punished for something you have done: ▪ We must make criminals pay for their crimes. ▪ I've paid dearly for mistakes I've made, and tried to learn something from them too. pay in/into pay sth in • pay in sth • pay sth into sth to put money in your bank account or a savings plan: ▪ Did you remember to pay that cheque in? ▪ I paid $250 into my savings account. pay off 1. pay off sth • pay sth off to pay all the money you owe someone: ▪ Mendez is working overtime to pay off his debts. ▪ Two years after the accident, the Thompsons have finally paid off their son's hospital bills. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑settle 2. pay off if something that you do pays off, it is successful or worth doing: ▪ The band's dedication and practice finally paid off when their single made it to number 1 in the charts. ▪ They took a hell of a risk, but it really paid off in the end. ■ SIMILAR TO: be worth it, pay dividends payoff n C informal an advantage or good result you get from something you do: ▪ Managers need to ensure that expensive, long-term projects have an adequate pay-off. 3. pay sb off • pay off sb to give someone money so they will not tell other people about something, especially something illegal or dishonest: ▪ Police are still trying to figure out who paid Trebble off. ▪ City leaders have been accused of paying off people who want to file complaints. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑buy off payoff n C informal a payment that you make to someone secretly or illegally in order to stop them from causing you any trouble: ▪ Our main witness is refusing to talk - the gang must have threatened her, or given her a payoff. 4. pay sb off • pay off sb especially BrE to stop employing a worker after paying them the wages that you owe them: ▪ Fife's biggest firm of solicitors has been forced to pay off the staff because of the recession. ▪ Although the engineering firm paid off 90 workers, 700 other jobs have been saved. ► compare ↑lay off payoff n C informal a payment that you make to someone when you make them leave their job, especially very large sums of money paid to company directors: ▪ Diller received an incredible $15 million payoff after he was forced to resign earlier this year. pay out 1. pay out sth • pay sth out to pay money to someone because they are owed it, or have earned it, or won it: ▪ $6 million of prize money is paid out every week. ▪ I'm still waiting for the insurance company to pay out. payout n C a sum of money paid to someone because they are owed it, or have earned it, or won it: ▪ A $50,000 payout on the insurance policy was to be shared by CenTrust and PaulCo. 2. pay out • pay out sth to spend a lot of money on something, especially when you do not want to: ▪ I'm sick of paying out all this money on rent. ▪ Why pay out $300 for a dress, when you're never going to wear it again? ■ SIMILAR TO: spend, ↑fork out informal, ↑shell out informal 3. pay out sth • pay sth out formal to slowly unwind a piece of rope: ▪ Lance paid out the line, and we secured the boat to the dock. pay over pay over sth • pay sth over to make an official payment of money to someone + to ▪ Clancy's share of the inheritance was paid over to him. pay up pay up to pay money that you owe, especially when you do not want to: ▪ In most cases, Fadely said, people pay up in response to the overdue notice. ▪ I've lost my credit card. Will I have to pay up if someone uses it? ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑cough up informal paid-up adj a paid-up member is someone who has paid the money necessary to join a club, political party etc: ▪ a paid-up member of the Labour Party |
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