单词payback
n.: 回报；本金返还；还本；投资的回收期
v.: 偿还；补偿
网络: 危险人物；报复；报应
本金返还；还本；投资的回收期:
the money that you receive back on money that you have invested (especially when this is equal to the amount that you invested to start with); the time that it takes to get your money back
报偿；回报:
the advantage or reward that sb receives for sth they have done; the act of paying sth back
补偿
〔经〕偿还;得益
复数：paybacks
n.returnreimbursementprofitremunerationrepayment
The payback on investing in a compact fluorescent bulb, therefore, is less than a year.
投资一个节能灯，一年就可以收回成本。
It was also a measure of payback, a settling of a score for a pair of deaths, the details of which have remained a secret for 13 years.
这也是一个衡量的回报，一个得分为一对定居死亡，其中的细节仍然有13年的秘密。
And a cradle-to-cradle analysis of the company"s design found an energy payback time of six months, she said.
她同时指出，一份对该公司方案的生命周期分析发现，这项能源投资的回报时间是6个月。
Whitacre in December said the money would be repaid by the end of June, and recently has hinted the payback would come even sooner.
惠塔克去年12月表示将在今年6月底之前还完，最近又暗示时间可能会进一步提前。
It"s easy to put off emergency response planning as we devote our attentions to tasks with more immediate "payback. "
因为我们致力于带有更多直接“回报”的任务，因此很容易延迟应急反应计划。
Cameron"s veto saves their blushes. But it does not save the euro and for that there is likely to be payback for the British.
是卡梅伦的否决避免了他们的尴尬，但是这没有拯救得了欧洲，为此他们好像还要报答一下英国呢。
As the average home uses about $2, 400 worth of energy per year, the payback is often impressive.
由于美国住房一般每年消耗价值2,400美元的能源，做一次审计的回报常常是惊人的。
If he existed and had followers, they"re most likely to be outraged and planning to make everybody suffer for a payback.
如果真有此人，而且手下仍幸存，他们一定非常生气，且计画著要报复，让所有的人受苦。
Payback time, " one Marine muttered in the dark of a truck; cheers erupted in another vehicle. "
“这是我们的回报时刻”，一辆卡车里，一名海军陆战队队员在黑暗中咕噜着；另一辆车中爆发了一阵欢呼。
Of course, payback is not an issue on a system that needs to be replaced anyway in a place where pipelines to gas are already in place.
在一个已经铺设好天然气管道，且燃油系统无论如何都要被替换掉的地区，补偿当然是不成问题的。