年俸 meaning in English

annual pension

But one fine day i learned that the mover of this telegraph was only a poor wretch , hired for twelve hundred francs a year , and employed all day , not in studying the heavens like an astronomer , or in gazing on the water like an angler , or even in enjoying the privilege of observing the country around him , but all his monotonous life was passed in watching his white - bellied , black - clawed fellow insect , four or five leagues distant from him
可是有一天，有人对我说，每一所急报站里的工作人员都是一个年俸仅一千二百法郎的可怜虫，他成天地，不象天文学家那种研究天象，也不象渔翁那样凝视水波，甚至连观望四周田野的权利都没有，而只是注视着离他十四五哩远的另一个人。