靠工資過活的人
兩個意思共用同一個薪水袋的畫面，差別只在你想談的是工作現場，還是這個家的生活來源。
noun · B2
Someone who works for wages — money paid for the hours, days or weeks they work — rather than for a fixed salary paid over a year.
領工資的人
核心畫面
Picture a pay envelope handed over at the end of the week, with the hours written on the front. A wage is money counted out in hours, days or weeks; an earner is the person who brings it in. Put the two together and you have someone whose money arrives in regular working-sized pieces. Everything the word does depends on where you point the camera: at the workplace, it tells you how this person is paid; at the front door of a house, it tells you whose envelope the family lives on.
可以想成一個週末領到的薪水袋，袋子上寫著這週做了幾個小時。wage 是按小時、按日、按週數出來的錢；earner 是…更多收起
可以想成一個週末領到的薪水袋，袋子上寫著這週做了幾個小時。wage 是按小時、按日、按週數出來的錢；earner 是把錢帶回來的那個人。兩個字接起來，畫面就是一個人的收入一塊一塊地、按工時到手。這個字的兩個用法其實只是鏡頭擺的位置不同。鏡頭放在工作場所，它告訴你這個人的錢是怎麼算的；鏡頭移到家門口，它告訴你這一家人是靠誰的薪水袋在過日子。One branch