0 to receive money as payment for work that you do -- 挣（钱）；挣得；赚得
I earn $80,000 a year. 我一年挣8万美元。
How much do you earn, if you don't mind me asking? 如果你不介意的话，能告诉我你挣多少钱吗？
You can't expect to earn a living (= be paid enough money to live on) from your painting. 你不能指望靠画画来维持生计。
[ + two objects ] Coffee exports earn (= give) Brazil many millions of dollars a year./Brazil earns many millions of dollars a year from coffee exports. 咖啡出口每年给巴西带来的收入达数百万英镑。／巴西通过出口咖啡每年收入达数百万英镑。
It's been a tough six months and I feel I've earned a few weeks off. 这半年可真是够辛苦的，我觉得我也该休息几周了。
As a personal trainer to the rich and famous, he earns over a million dollars a year.
He earns a bit of extra pocket money by babysitting.
Many people are more interested in job satisfaction than in earning large amounts of money.
A person's gross income is the money they earn before tax is deducted from it.
You should put the money in a savings account where it will earn interest.
Table 4 considers the correlation between husbands' earnings and wives' earning when husbands and wives separately are sorted into quintiles by earnings.
Identification of outliers provides insights about the characteristics of retirees who earned large amounts of deferred compensation.
However, these arrangements pose a problem for women, who are likely to have worked and contributed for fewer years and earned lower wages when working.
