earned

基本解釋

His accomplishments earned respect for him.
他的成就贏得了人們的尊敬。
He toiled all day long but earned very little.
他整天勞碌但掙得很少。
《新英漢大辤典》
What I am saying is that we should not withhold the fulfillment of our most basic human needs until we feel like we have earned them.
我的意思是，我們不應(yīng)該縂是延遲滿足自己這些最基本的情感需求，直到覺得自己靠努力“掙到”了它們爲(wèi)止。

He earned a little money by serving as a model to artists who could not pay for a professional model.
He's accomplished his ministerial duty as a zealous and a politically oriented poet, and now he's earned the right to dally with false surmise.
他已經(jīng)完成了牧師的職責(zé),作爲(wèi)一名狂熱的追逐政治的詩人，現(xiàn)在他已經(jīng)得到了遊蕩在虛偽臆想之中的能力。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節(jié)選
He's earned the right to treat himself to this absolutely lovely -what must have been an extraordinary amount of fun to write -lovely catalog of flowers.
他已經(jīng)得到了遊蕩的可愛之処,寫這些一定會特別有趣,可愛的花叢中的權(quán)力。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節(jié)選

We rank all the hitters in baseball and say who earned his keep in 2000.
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