pension

• n. 退休金，抚恤金；津贴；膳宿费
• vt. 发给养老金或抚恤金

1. a regular payment to a person that iis intended to allow them to subsist without working

The Big Three American carmakers—General Motors, Ford and Chrysler—accumulated ruinous costs over the post-war years, such as gold-plated health plans and pensions for workers who retired as young as 48.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

Understandably, there are concerns about what this means for public finances given the associated health and pension challenges.

2019年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

They argue that governments should persuade us into making better decisions - such as saving more in our pension plans - by changing the default options.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

And there is, to date, only the flimsiest（脆弱的）of publicly-funded health care and pension systems, which increases incentives for individuals to save while they are working.

出自-2012年12月阅读原文

In a report entitled "Averting the Old Age Crisis", it argued that pension arrangements in most countries were unsustainable.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

Governments in rich countries now accept that their pension and health-care promises will soon become unaffordable, and many of them have embarked on reforms, but so far only timidly

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

By far the most effective method to restrain pension spending is to give people the opportunity to work longer, because it increases tax revenues and reduces spending on pensions at the same time.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

In its 1994 report, the World Bank argued that the current pension system in most countries could not be sustained in the long term

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

One reason why pension and health care reforms are slow in coming is that politicians are afraid of losing votes in the next election.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

The author believes the most effective method to solve the pension crisis is to allow people to work longer

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

the longer they work, the higher their pension

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The World Economic Forum plans to consider the future of pensions and health care at its prestigious Davos conference early next year.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

To avoid fiscal (财政) meltdown, public pensions and health-care provision will have to be reined back severely and taxes may have to go up

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

Younger people today mostly accept that they will have to work for longer and that their pensions will be less generous

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

They argue that governments should persuade us into making better decisions — such as saving more in our pension plans — by changing the default options.

2015年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

At long last, in a comfortable home, with a generous pension, he should learn to take things easy.

2015年高考英语天津卷 阅读表达 原文

The FASB and IASB have been exactly that, cleaning up rules on stock options and pensions, for example, against hostility form special interests.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

Politicians have repeatedly “backloaded” public-sector pay deals, keeping the pay increases modest but adding to holidays and especially pensions that are already generous.

出自-2012年考研阅读原文

to receive an old-age/a retirement pension

领养老金 / 退休金

牛津词典

a disability/widow's pension

残疾 / 遗孀抚恤金

牛津词典

a state pension

国家抚恤金

牛津词典

to live on a pension

靠退休金生活

牛津词典

to take out a personal/private pension

获得个人 / 私人抚恤金

牛津词典

a pension fund

退休金基金

牛津词典

(informal,figurative)That car of yours should have been pensioned off years ago.

你那辆汽车早就该报废了。

牛津词典

He was pensioned off and his job given to a younger man.

他被迫退休，工作交给了一个年轻一些的人。

牛津词典

to receive an old-age/a retirement pension

领养老金 / 退休金

牛津词典

a disability/widow's pension

残疾 / 遗孀抚恤金

牛津词典

a state pension

国家抚恤金

牛津词典

to live on a pension

靠退休金生活

牛津词典

to take out a personal/private pension

获得个人 / 私人抚恤金

牛津词典

a pension fund

退休金基金

牛津词典

(informal,figurative)That car of yours should have been pensioned off years ago.

你那辆汽车早就该报废了。

牛津词典

He was pensioned off and his job given to a younger man.

他被迫退休，工作交给了一个年轻一些的人。

牛津词典

...struggling by on a pension.

靠养老金苦苦支撑

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...a company pension scheme.

公司养老金计划

柯林斯高阶英语词典

What do you like to do in your spare time?

空闲时你喜欢干什么?

辞典例句

The directors will each get a large golden handshake and a pension.

所有的经理都会得到丰厚的退职金和养老费.

《简明英汉词典》

Since then he has been drawing a pension.

从那时起他一直领退休金.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

I'm afraid I have quite a disinclination to retire on a pension.

恐怕我很不愿意领养老金退休.

《简明英汉词典》

The country provided a pension to the old person.

国家给老人们提供养老金.

《简明英汉词典》

The pension is not sufficient for living expenses.

这年金不够应付生活费用.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

The pension includes an allowance of fifty pounds for traffic expenditures.

年金中包括50镑交通费补贴.

《简明英汉词典》

You will be entitled to your pension when you reach 65.

你到65岁就有资格享受养老金。

《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

For every £100 you invest into a pension plan the Inland Revenue makes it up to £125.

你每向养老金计划中投入100英镑，国内税收署就会将其补加至125英镑。

柯林斯例句

He lived on an invalidity pension which came as a weekly giro.

他靠每周领取的作为病残养老金的直接转账救济支票过日子。

柯林斯例句

He is moving ever closer to drawing his pension.

他就要领取养老金了。

柯林斯例句

New stakeholder pensions will aim to give all workers a retirement pension they can live on.

新存托养老金计划的目标是为所有工作者提供可以赖以为生的退休养老金。

柯林斯例句

来自拉丁语pendere,悬挂，称量，支付，词源同pendulum,dependent,pound.-s,过去分词格。引申词义定期支付的钱，养老金。

来自拉丁语pendere,悬挂，称量，支付，词源同pendulum,dependent,pound.-s,过去分词格。 引申词义定期支付的钱，后用于指寄宿学校，现用于指法国等国家的廉价小旅店。

1. He lived on an invalidity pension which came as a weekly giro.

他靠每周领取的作为病残养老金的直接转账救济支票过日子。

来自柯林斯例句

2. He is moving ever closer to drawing his pension.

他就要领取养老金了。

来自柯林斯例句

3. The main beneficiaries of pension equality so far have been men.

迄今为止，男性一直是退休金均等政策的主要受益者。

来自柯林斯例句

4. Employees can contract out of their employer's occupational pension scheme.

雇员可以退出雇主的职业养老金计划。

来自柯林斯例句

5. One of the most important changes concerns the investment of pension contributions.

最重要的一个变化涉及养老保险基金的投资。

来自柯林斯例句

pension

pension: see ponder

pension (n.)

mid-14c., "payment for services," especially "reward, payment out of a benefice" (early 14c., in Anglo-Latin), from Old French pension "payment, rent" (13c.) and directly from Latin pensionem (nominative pensio) "a payment, installment, rent," from past participle stem of pendere "pay, weigh" (see pendant). Meaning "regular payment in consideration of past service" first recorded 1520s. Meaning "boarding house, boarding school" first attested 1640s, from French, and usually in reference to places in France or elsewhere on the Continent.

pension (v.)

1640s, "to live in a pension," from pension (n.) or else from French pensionner. Meaning "to grant a pension" is from 1702. Related: Pensioned; pensioning.