单词 | bread-and-butter |
释义 | ˌbread-and-ˈbutter adjective [only before noun] 1 British EnglishBASIC bread-and-butter questions are very important basic ones 〔问题〕有关生计的,最基本的 bread-and-butter political issues such as jobs and housing 就业和住房等关乎民生的政治问题2. bread-and-butter work is work that is not very exciting but provides you with most of the money that you need in order to live 〔工作〕赖以养家糊口的,赖以为生的Examples from the Corpusbread-and-butter• In the late nineties when workers showed excessive interest in bread-and-butter issues, the revolutionaries denounced their petty-bourgeois, trade-unionist mentality.From Longman Business Dictionarybread and butterˌbread and ˈbutter noun [singular] if something is your bread and butter, it is the thing that gives you your main incomeThe paper’s bread and butter is reporting local events in a small community.ˌbread-and-ˈbutter adjectiveChineseSyllable Corpus are important very questions basic bread-and-butter Business |
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