earners是什么意思？

earners

• n. 挣钱人( earner的名词复数 )；

例句

• We have two wage earners in the family. 我们家有两个人挣钱。
• The report shows the Swiss are among the world's top wage earners. 报告显示瑞士人的工资收入位列世界最高水平。
• They appear to rule out some of the ideas that have been mentioned — banding the tax so higher earners would pay more. 他们看来要剔除其中提到的一些想法——如把税率分档，使收入越高，缴得越多。

英语六级真题

As we've seen, wage earners are expected to care for not only their children but their aging parents.
出自-2012年12月阅读原文

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  挣钱的人;盈利之物
  An earner is someone or something that earns money or produces profit.
  例句
  ...a typical wage earner... 典型的工薪阶层 Sugar is Fiji's second biggest export earner. 糖是斐济第二大出口创汇产品。
• PHRASE
  可以轻松赚钱的事情
  If you describe something as a nice little earner, you mean that it is something that you can make money from easily.
  例句
  T-shirts are a nice little earner and it's better than the dole. 卖T恤衫来钱容易，比领救济金好。