Pension

(noun.) a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to subsist without working.

(verb.) grant a pension to.

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• This loom was personally inspected by Napoleon, who rewarded the inventor with honours and a pension. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• He knew Vevay well, and as soon as the boat touched the little quay, he hurried along the shore to La Tour, where the Carrols were living en pension. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Mr. Ronalds has since received a small pension, not however as a reward for his ingenious telegraph invention, but for his services in other departments of science. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• His pension was due. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• In any country in a wholesome state, Volumnia would be a clear case for the pension list. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The Prince was so much pleased with the invention and ingenuity of Furnace and Ashton, that he granted them a pension for their lives of ￡70 a year each. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• The pension from each family for the education and entertainment of a child, upon failure of due payment, is levied by the emperor's officers. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• With pensions! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• He is very good to his poor relations: pensions several of the women, and is educating a young fellow at a good deal of expense. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Here, as at Paris, Becky was a boarding-house queen, and ruled in select pensions. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• She is grateful to the artists that bring to her this high credit and fill her coffers with foreign money, and so she encourages them with pensions. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I must not at least sink into the degradation of being pensioned for work that I never achieved. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• On the Tuesday as it might be, Sir John says, My lady, the bailiff is pensioned liberally; and Gabriel Betteredge has got his place. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.

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