bread and butter

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˌbred ən ˈbʌt.ər]
• 美式音标 [ˌbred ən ˈbʌt̬.ɚ]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• 涂黄油的面包；基本生活资料；生计

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• So for days and days she had nothing but bread and butter and tea.
  所以好多天来她只有黄油面包和和茶来充饥。
• Though the plant will produce 100 MW of electricity, it won't exactly wean Abu Dhabi off its bread and butter.
  虽然这个工厂只生产100兆瓦的电力，可它完全不需要阿布扎比的人们提供面包和黄油。
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• Earlier that evening, Evelyn Thompson had guided me through a fair sampling of the ethnic groceries that are, so to speak, her bread and butter.
  那天晚上早些时候，伊芙琳汤普森带着我穿过集市，采购一些有民族特色的生活用品，这么说吧，就是她的面包和奶油。

原声例句

• There were potatoes,fresh corn, apple pies,hot bread,sweet pickles, bread and butter and honey.
• Most of the recruits are not really people who have an ideology, but they do it for bread and butter.

权威例句

• Audi, and corporate overlord Volkswagen, have made the turbocharged engine their bread and butter.
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• Sure, I use a computer as the essential tool for making my daily bread and butter.
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词组短语

短语

• bread d and butter 食物;面包和黄油
• Bread dish and butter knife 面包和牛油碟
• bread d and butter business 基本业务
• bread -and butter pericardium 黄油面包状心包
• Assorted Bread and butter 什锦面包及黄油;什锦面包和黄油

英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• a job or activity that provides you with the money you need to live

柯林斯英英字典

• Something that is the bread and butter of a person or organization is the activity or work that provides the main part of their income.
• Bread-and-butter issues or matters are ones which are important to most people, because they affect them personally.

专业释义

动力与电气工程

• 肥皂剧，消闲剧

食品科学技术

• 面包抹黄油
• 抹黄油的面包