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单词 rice bowl
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Definition of rice bowl in English:

rice bowl

noun
  • 1An area in which abundant quantities of rice are grown.

    稻米之乡;米粮仓

    Example sentencesExamples
    • At the front line in the battle to contain the lake, large squads of farmers defied the sweltering heat of a summer's day in the Chinese rice bowl to toss sandbags, rocks and soil into the embryonic breaches.
    • ‘A major reconstruction effort will be needed to get the area back to being the rice bowl of the state, and this has to start now,’ added Kapoor.
    • For years, Burma was a prosperous nation known as the rice bowl of Asia.
    • West Java Governor Danny Setiawan said during a visit to Cirebon on Thursday that his administration would go ahead with the project because it was necessary for West Java to remain a rice bowl in Java.
    • In the center lay the Cagayan Valley, Luzon's rice bowl and a key supply area for the Japanese units.
    • Day five was a completely different kettle of fish, crossing the rice bowl of Thailand to get to Kabin Buri.
  • 2in singular One's livelihood (used especially with reference to Asia)

    饭碗,生计(尤用于亚洲)

    vested interests will fight to the death to protect their rice bowl

    既得利益集团将会拼命保卫他们的饭碗。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • My belief has been that the hammer is my rice bowl. " He turned to face the mountain slope and resumed his work.
    • This singular mentality reduces transformation efforts into rear-guard actions to defend rice bowls.
    • China does not engage only in export without import, we have imported large numbers of Boeing airplanes and Ford motor vehicles, but we have never complained that they [US companies] have seized our rice bowls.
    • As soon as you start importing, you are goring somebody's ox, breaking somebody's rice bowl.
    • ‘Give us back our rice bowls,’ read the Chinese characters on a poster carried by one of 1,500 workers who rallied in May in the largest demonstration in Macau since China's Tiananmen Square killings in 1989.
    • To be blunt, I am sorry that the teachers' unions are more interested in protecting their iron rice bowls than in seeing how necessary these reforms are.
    • The CLA and labor representatives have long believed that foreign labor competes for local labor's rice bowl and that reducing the number of foreign laborers will improve the unemployment situation.
    • I can't blame Zebari for blowing Shrub little rhetorical kisses - he has his rice bowl to look after.
    • I do not believe it is the function of any reviewer to break anyone's rice bowl.
    • ‘Your rice bowl is in danger,’ the daily warned, referring to the jobs of officials who cannot perform their duties.

Definition of rice bowl in US English:

rice bowl

nounˈrīs bōl
  • 1A dish out of which rice is eaten.

    饭碗

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Born in China and raised by his widowed mother in the U.S., Ken grew up in a melting pot of American culture, but ate from a traditional Chinese rice bowl.
    • The surreal corpulence of the boy is a distraction, and when we watch him steal the only pieces of meat from his uncomprehending blind stepsister's rice bowl we are reminded not of Chaplin but of Fellini.
    • My tofu & mushroom rice bowl had a great big gristle-y chunk of beef in the middle.
    • If biryani is not eaten, a complete multicourse meal is served: foods are brought out sequentially and added to one's rice bowl after the previous course is finished.
    • China has dismantled the famous iron rice bowl, but what if anything is replacing it?
    • If you really want to impress the waiters in a Chinese restaurant eat rice from a bowl the way the Chinese do: raise the rice bowl with one hand and perch the edge of the bowl on your lower lip.
    • Florence Lin mentions both these and also provides an illuminating tip for anyone who has to take in a bowl of hot congee at high speed: First you fill the rice bowl to the brim with congee.
    • The most significant of all his finds were fragments of a white rice bowl bearing the emblem of the Japanese military star.
    • There was no sign of a knob or ring anywhere, yet a strange, semi-circle hole was shaped in it, about the size of a rice bowl.
    • But you're here for Christmas shopping so just pick up a few fine china rice bowls and serving dishes.
    • Ladle into warmed Chinese rice bowls and serve immediately.
    • Then, a young contortionist comes on stage, as well as two rice bowl balancing acrobats.
    • Hey, the rice bowl in your hand was bought for HK $10?
    • Before leaving New Zealand, we were told to look out for a sign of good restaurants in Thailand - the familiar Shell symbol with the outline of a green rice bowl.
    • Now that this so-called iron rice bowl has been shattered, they find they must seek support in other places.
    • On Sunday at noon, when the victim, surnamed Xia, was trimming his toenails on the bed, Li began to quarrel with him because Li's rice bowl was near the bed.
    • She polished off another rice bowl then turned her attention to a few strips of yakitori.
    • Tenchiki filled his uncle's rice bowl and passed it back to him.
    • He broke a little off and placed it in the rice bowl with some sauce.
    • Although not designed for breakfast, the Nova dinnerware collection includes an elegant, white ceramic rice bowl with a pleasing rectangular shape.
  • 2An area in which abundant quantities of rice are grown.

    稻米之乡;米粮仓

    Example sentencesExamples
    • West Java Governor Danny Setiawan said during a visit to Cirebon on Thursday that his administration would go ahead with the project because it was necessary for West Java to remain a rice bowl in Java.
    • ‘A major reconstruction effort will be needed to get the area back to being the rice bowl of the state, and this has to start now,’ added Kapoor.
    • For years, Burma was a prosperous nation known as the rice bowl of Asia.
    • In the center lay the Cagayan Valley, Luzon's rice bowl and a key supply area for the Japanese units.
    • At the front line in the battle to contain the lake, large squads of farmers defied the sweltering heat of a summer's day in the Chinese rice bowl to toss sandbags, rocks and soil into the embryonic breaches.
    • Day five was a completely different kettle of fish, crossing the rice bowl of Thailand to get to Kabin Buri.
  • 3in singular One's livelihood (used especially in reference to Asia)

    饭碗,生计(尤用于亚洲)

    entrenched vested interests will fight to the death to protect their rice bowl

    既得利益集团将会拼命保卫他们的饭碗。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • As soon as you start importing, you are goring somebody's ox, breaking somebody's rice bowl.
    • My belief has been that the hammer is my rice bowl. " He turned to face the mountain slope and resumed his work.
    • I can't blame Zebari for blowing Shrub little rhetorical kisses - he has his rice bowl to look after.
    • This singular mentality reduces transformation efforts into rear-guard actions to defend rice bowls.
    • I do not believe it is the function of any reviewer to break anyone's rice bowl.
    • ‘Give us back our rice bowls,’ read the Chinese characters on a poster carried by one of 1,500 workers who rallied in May in the largest demonstration in Macau since China's Tiananmen Square killings in 1989.
    • The CLA and labor representatives have long believed that foreign labor competes for local labor's rice bowl and that reducing the number of foreign laborers will improve the unemployment situation.
    • China does not engage only in export without import, we have imported large numbers of Boeing airplanes and Ford motor vehicles, but we have never complained that they [US companies] have seized our rice bowls.
    • To be blunt, I am sorry that the teachers' unions are more interested in protecting their iron rice bowls than in seeing how necessary these reforms are.
    • ‘Your rice bowl is in danger,’ the daily warned, referring to the jobs of officials who cannot perform their duties.
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