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单词 well-paid
释义 well(-)paid, ppl. a.
1. Highly pleased or satisfied. Const. of. (See paid 1, pay v.1 1.) Obs.
c1400[see paid 1].c1450Godstow Reg. 166 Iohn, bisshop of exetur, was plesid & well paide of þe gifte.c1460Towneley Myst. xiii. 425, I hope they wyll nott be well payde when thay thare shepe lak.a1846in M. A. Richardson Local Hist. Table-bk., Leg. III. 259 If he's struck my daughter I shall make him a weel-paid wife.
2. Liberally remunerated.
1590Sir J. Smyth Disc. Weapons Ded. 4 b, Souldiours well payd, and chiefly being subiects to the Prince that they serue.1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. iii. i. 32 With his Banners, and his well paid ranks.a1693Urquhart's Rabelais iii. xviii. 147 The well-payed Incomes of Regenting-Doctors.1726Learned Diss. Dumpling (ed. 4) 17 The Well-Fed, Well-Read, Well-Pay'd C― J― Esq.1832H. Martineau Hill & Valley iv. 63 It is the duty of well-paid labourers to become capitalists if they can.1845Syd. Smith Ir. R.C. Ch. Wks. 1859 II. 334/1 A well-paid Protestant clergyman.
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