starvation wages

基本解释

You can expect to be paid starvation wages, and you probably won't be treated with any respect.
你会得到比正常收入少的工资，很可能得不到任何尊重。
Some may benefit but the workers earn starvation wages and the country is reported to be in the midst of a famine.
有人得益了，但工人有工资却几乎饿死，报道说整个国家都在闹饥荒。
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They included slavery, serfdom, brutal working conditions, starvation wages, child labor, and, in the Americas, the "Indian Problem", as it was known at the time.
它们包括奴隶，农奴，残酷的工作条件，饥饿工资，童工，并在美洲，“印度问题”，因为它是已知的时间。
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The nineteenth century, many people believe, was an era in American history when workers were forced to toil in sweatshops twenty-eight hours a day for starvation wages.
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We the people charge the regime as being guilty of: the privatization of subsoil, the destruction of industry, the starvation of seniors, the homelessness of children, an orgy of ignorance, the degradation of education, beggarly wages and pensions, the limitation of the rights to housing and work, total alienation, fear, despair, and hopelessness.
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