earned

基本解释

His accomplishments earned respect for him.
他的成就赢得了人们的尊敬。
He toiled all day long but earned very little.
他整天劳碌但挣得很少。
《新英汉大辞典》
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，我们不应该总是延迟满足自己这些最基本的情感需求，直到觉得自己靠努力“挣到”了它们为止。

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.
他已经完成了牧师的职责,作为一名狂热的追逐政治的诗人，现在他已经得到了游荡在虚伪臆想之中的能力。
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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.
他已经得到了游荡的可爱之处,写这些一定会特别有趣,可爱的花丛中的权力。
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We rank all the hitters in baseball and say who earned his keep in 2000.
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