pension

英 ['penʃn] 美 ['penʃn]

• n. 养老金；退休金；抚恤金；年金；（欧洲等地的）私人小旅店
• v. 发退休金

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [C]退休金,养老金

   an amount of money paid regularly, especially by a government or company, to sb who can no longer earn money by working, especially because of old age or illness

v. (动词)

1. vt. 发给…养老金〔退休金〕

   dismiss from work but continue to pay a pension to

英英释义

Noun:

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

Verb:

1. grant a pension to

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. He's got nothing beyond his state pension.
   除了国家发的养老金，他一无所有。
2. He went to the post office to draw his pension.
   他到邮局去取退休金了。
3. concede one's attention
   
4. He had stayed at the pension for a fortnight.
   他已在那个小旅馆待了两个星期。

用作动词 (v.)

1. He was pensioned off and replaced with a younger man.
   他被迫退休，由一年轻人接替其职务。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. She went to the company to draw her pension.
   她去公司领退休金。
2. The country provided a pension to the old person.
   国家给老人们提供养老金。

经典引文

• These professors were maintained with liberal pensions.

  出自： James Harris

常用短语

用作动词 (v.)

pension off( v.+adv. )

不再使用no longer use sth
pension sb off
He was pensioned off.

他获领退休金退休。 pension sth off
Your old bike has to be pensioned off.

你的旧自行车必须扔掉了。

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

• award a pension 给予养老金
• draw one's pension 领取养老金

形容词+～

• full pension 最高养老金

名词+～

• retirement pension 退休金

词语用法

v. (动词)

1. pension用作动词时的基本意思是“发给…退休金”。 其后常跟介词off连用,表示“发养老金使…退休”“不再使用”,常用于被动结构。

词源解说

• ☆ 14世纪中期进入英语，直接源自古法语的pension，意为支付；最初源自拉丁语的pensionem，意为支付。

近反义词

【近义词】

• allowance