Usage examples of "poorly paid" in English with translation to French

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You should not despise a man just because he is poorly paid. On ne devrait pas mépriser un homme juste parce qu'il est mal payé.

Unskilled labor is poorly paid. Le travail non qualifié est mal payé.

He paid no attention to my advice. Il ne prêta pas attention à mon conseil.

One problem translators face is that sometimes the source document is poorly written. Un problème que les traducteurs rencontrent est que parfois le document original est mal écrit.

The CEO got paid in stock options. Le PDG a été rémunéré en options d'achat d'actions.

Tatoeba: Where nothing ruins a passionate night of sentence-making like a poorly placed comma or, even worse, a careless typo. Tatoeba : là où rien ne ruine autant une nuit passionnée de création de phrases qu'une virgule mal placée ou, pire encore, une coquille d'inattention.

I should have paid a little more attention. J'aurais dû faire un peu plus attention.

The lubrication system was poorly designed. Le système de lubrification a été mal conçu.

I paid 40,000 yen for this tape recorder. J'ai payé quarante mille yens pour cet enregistreur.

There is a saying, that "Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly". If one looks at the Linux desktop, one will realise, that it's also true for desktop operating systems. Il y a une expression qui dit que « Ceux qui ne comprennent pas UNIX sont condamnés à le réinventer médiocrement ». Si on regarde les Linux de bureau, on réalise que c'est aussi vrai pour les systèmes d'exploitation de bureau.

I paid him five dollars. Je lui ai donné 5 dollars en paiement.

I am paid by the week. Je suis payé à la semaine.

Workers in France receive four weeks of paid vacation each year. Les travailleurs en France reçoivent quatre semaines de vacances payées par année.

I paid the bill. Je réglais l'addition.

I'm paid biweekly. Je suis payé deux fois par semaine.

A lot of people think that lawyers get paid too much. Beaucoup de gens pensent que les avocats sont trop payés.

Pharamp paid a fine for illegal parking. Pharamp a payé une amende pour stationnement interdit.

Well, it seems he's paid off his debts, but how on Earth did he arrange that amount of money? Bon, il semble qu'il ait réglé ses dettes, mais par quel miracle a-t-il pu rassembler une telle somme d'argent ?

I will do it on condition that I am paid. Je le ferai si tu me paies.

CEO's of American corporations are paid several times their Japanese counterparts. Les directeurs généraux des sociétés étasuniennes sont payés plusieurs fois l'équivalent de leurs homologues japonais.

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