Long-term stock investments can pay off.(長期的股票投資能有所回報。)

Sensible to pay off Somali pirates.(向索馬里海盜支付贖金是明智的。)

Pay off all debts.(還清所有債務。)

Pay off your credit CARDS.(還清你的信用卡欠款。)

But an investment is supposed to generate income to pay off the loans.(但是一項投資應該產生收入以償還貸款。)

The studying is starting to pay off at work.(學習的成效在工作中逐漸體現。)

You can't have it both ways. If you can afford to go out all the time, you can afford to pay off some of your debts.(你不可能做到兩全其美。如果你有錢整天外出玩樂，就能還掉一部分債。)

They doubted whether all this work would pay off.(他們懷疑這樣干是否劃得來。)

It would take him the rest of his life to pay off that loan.(還清那筆貸款將花費他的余生。)

But their fight might never pay off.(但是他們的抗爭也許永遠不會有結果。)