emolument

• n. 薪水，报酬

e-, 向外。-mol, 磨，软，词源同mill,melt. 即磨出来应得的，原指付给磨米工或磨面工的劳动报酬。

1. compensation received by virtue of holding an office or having employment (usually in the form of wages or fees);

"a clause in the U.S. constitution prevents sitting legislators from receiving emoluments from their own votes"

emolument

emolument: [15] Just as a salary was originally a ‘payment for salt’, so emolument appears to have been a particular kind of payment – in this case for flour – which later became generalized in meaning. Latin ēmolere meant ‘grind out’ (it was a compound verb formed from the prefix ex- ‘out’ and molere ‘grind’, a relative of English mill and meal ‘ground grain’), and hence the derivative ēmolumentum was used originally for ‘fee paid to a miller for grinding grain’. The metaphorical sense ‘gain’ was already present in classical Latin.
=> meal, mill

emolument (n.)

mid-15c., from Old French émolument "advantage, gain, benefit; income, revenue" (13c.) and directly from Latin emolumentum "profit, gain, advantage, benefit," perhaps originally "payment to a miller for grinding corn," from emolere "grind out," from assimilated form of ex- "out" (see ex-) + molere "to grind" (see mallet).

He could earn up to £1m a year in salary and emoluments from many directorships.

他每年的薪水加上担任许多董事职务的报酬高达一百万英镑。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

He was paid a modest emolument.

他获酬甚微.

期刊摘选

Typically, coating paper Toner low emolument and making quality and low.

通常, 涂层纸的墨粉定影强度较低且制卡质量低.

期刊摘选

He plied his new profession with emolument to himself, and infinite plague to the country.

他干这新行肥了自己, 对国家却是贻患无穷.

辞典例句

The emolument of this profession is not satisfactory.

此行业的报酬不令人满意。

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