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单词 bread and butter
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Definition of bread and butter in English:

bread and butter

nounbrɛd ənd ˈbʌtəˈˌbrɛd (ə)n ˈbədər
mass noun
  • 1A person's livelihood or main source of income.

    谋生之道,生计;主要的收入来源

    their bread and butter is reporting local events

    他们靠报导当地新闻谋生。

    as modifier bread-and-butter occupations

    赖以谋生的职业。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • You have your bread and butter income, from doing things like setting up a teaching practice or running a covers band with a commercial edge to it.
    • It's bread and butter work and a host of other urgers and coat tuggers have now tuned in to the lurk.
    • Of course their bread and butter depends on advertising, but that's the nature of commercial broadcasting.
    • His dream remained forging art works, but this was still his bread and butter.
    • Such chips are, of course, bread and butter to Apple and essential for its on-going business strategy.
    • Put simply, the Wolves should rely on their bread and butter and abandon what doesn't work.
    • Twenty years ago, however, the company's bread and butter work was nailing matrimonial infidels.
    • It has been unfortunate that many of the ties have fallen on dates when the club would have had home league games to provide their bread and butter income.
    • Sporadic work, from a wide variety of sources, is their bread and butter.
    • The downturn is also thought to affect the fee income of barristers for whom personal injuries work is often their bread and butter.
    • Amongst his academic duties, Dane intends to take up rugby, the school's main sporting bread and butter.
    • Secondly, why do working women live on bread and butter while working men live on beefsteak and butter?
    • Her bread and butter work is commercial photography but artwork is her passion.
    • But there are thousands for whom commercials, though not their sole income, are bread and butter.
    Synonyms
    living, livelihood, means of subsistence, income, daily bread
    1. 1.1 Used in reference to something everyday or ordinary.
      the bread and butter of non-League soccer

      普通的业余足球运动员。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • It is time to start filling in the blanks, particularly on bread-and-butter issues.
      • Residents also ask constituency assistants about bread-and-butter money issues.
      • He probably didn't hammer enough on bread-and-butter issues in the Midwest.
      • This sort of straight-line running to commit a tackler should be bread-and-butter stuff but Scotland's back division still manages to make a meal of it.
      • In Bulgaria of 2004 and 2005, it may be that old-fashioned bread-and-butter politics will hold sway.
      • The messages the party must get over are, it turns out, about wooing key groups of voters, particularly women, on bread-and-butter issues such as pensions and tax.
      • What's holding him down is concern about the economy and other sort of bread-and-butter issues like health care.
      • After the joys of the three-day Festival meeting at Cheltenham, it's back to bread-and-butter fare, and a taste of what is just around the corner, tomorrow.
      • For the world's poor, ‘anti-globalisation’ is about real bread-and-butter issues, which do not disappear once the international summits are over.
      • Maybe some of those bread-and-butter issues can come to the fore.
      • During his time on Down District Council, he developed a reputation as a man of the ordinary people; someone who would campaign hard on bread-and-butter issues.
      • This is a very specific bread-and-butter campaign.
      • He is also attuned to running a two-tier system, managing four-star hotels as well as bread-and-butter budget locations.
      • Do the movements concern themselves only with bread-and-butter issues, ignoring the big picture issues such as where China may be heading?
      • Sources tell CNN that from his hospital bed, the former president counseled Kerry on shifting the talk from Vietnam to bread-and-butter issues.
      • Polls over the past week show that most voters are just as exercised about bread-and-butter issues such as jobs and domestic concerns as they are about Iraq and the ‘war on terror’.
      • Under Macmillan, they continued to deliver on bread-and-butter issues and were rewarded by a 100-seat election win in 1959.
      • But where bread-and-butter issues are concerned, they know where their loyalties lie.
      • Labor brings the most muscle, for instance, but it also has to play defense against Republican assaults on a variety of bread-and-butter issues.
      • For him, economics is everything: all else is just a diversion staged by the wicked ruling class to distract the masses from bread-and-butter issues.
      Synonyms
      youthful, young, childlike, adolescent, teenage, teenaged, fresh-faced

Definition of bread and butter in US English:

bread and butter

nounˈˌbrɛd (ə)n ˈbədərˈˌbred (ə)n ˈbədər
  • 1A person's livelihood or main source of income, typically as earned by routine work.

    谋生之道,生计;主要的收入来源

    their bread and butter is reporting local events

    他们靠报导当地新闻谋生。

    as modifier bread-and-butter occupations

    赖以谋生的职业。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Sporadic work, from a wide variety of sources, is their bread and butter.
    • It has been unfortunate that many of the ties have fallen on dates when the club would have had home league games to provide their bread and butter income.
    • Her bread and butter work is commercial photography but artwork is her passion.
    • Put simply, the Wolves should rely on their bread and butter and abandon what doesn't work.
    • But there are thousands for whom commercials, though not their sole income, are bread and butter.
    • Twenty years ago, however, the company's bread and butter work was nailing matrimonial infidels.
    • Of course their bread and butter depends on advertising, but that's the nature of commercial broadcasting.
    • It's bread and butter work and a host of other urgers and coat tuggers have now tuned in to the lurk.
    • Such chips are, of course, bread and butter to Apple and essential for its on-going business strategy.
    • Secondly, why do working women live on bread and butter while working men live on beefsteak and butter?
    • The downturn is also thought to affect the fee income of barristers for whom personal injuries work is often their bread and butter.
    • His dream remained forging art works, but this was still his bread and butter.
    • Amongst his academic duties, Dane intends to take up rugby, the school's main sporting bread and butter.
    • You have your bread and butter income, from doing things like setting up a teaching practice or running a covers band with a commercial edge to it.
    Synonyms
    living, livelihood, means of subsistence, income, daily bread
    1. 1.1 An everyday or ordinary person or thing.
      平凡的人(或事)
      the bread and butter of non-League soccer

      普通的业余足球运动员。

      as modifier a good bread-and-butter player
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He probably didn't hammer enough on bread-and-butter issues in the Midwest.
      • For the world's poor, ‘anti-globalisation’ is about real bread-and-butter issues, which do not disappear once the international summits are over.
      • For him, economics is everything: all else is just a diversion staged by the wicked ruling class to distract the masses from bread-and-butter issues.
      • In Bulgaria of 2004 and 2005, it may be that old-fashioned bread-and-butter politics will hold sway.
      • After the joys of the three-day Festival meeting at Cheltenham, it's back to bread-and-butter fare, and a taste of what is just around the corner, tomorrow.
      • He is also attuned to running a two-tier system, managing four-star hotels as well as bread-and-butter budget locations.
      • The messages the party must get over are, it turns out, about wooing key groups of voters, particularly women, on bread-and-butter issues such as pensions and tax.
      • Under Macmillan, they continued to deliver on bread-and-butter issues and were rewarded by a 100-seat election win in 1959.
      • This sort of straight-line running to commit a tackler should be bread-and-butter stuff but Scotland's back division still manages to make a meal of it.
      • What's holding him down is concern about the economy and other sort of bread-and-butter issues like health care.
      • Maybe some of those bread-and-butter issues can come to the fore.
      • This is a very specific bread-and-butter campaign.
      • Do the movements concern themselves only with bread-and-butter issues, ignoring the big picture issues such as where China may be heading?
      • But where bread-and-butter issues are concerned, they know where their loyalties lie.
      • Polls over the past week show that most voters are just as exercised about bread-and-butter issues such as jobs and domestic concerns as they are about Iraq and the ‘war on terror’.
      • It is time to start filling in the blanks, particularly on bread-and-butter issues.
      • Labor brings the most muscle, for instance, but it also has to play defense against Republican assaults on a variety of bread-and-butter issues.
      • During his time on Down District Council, he developed a reputation as a man of the ordinary people; someone who would campaign hard on bread-and-butter issues.
      • Residents also ask constituency assistants about bread-and-butter money issues.
      • Sources tell CNN that from his hospital bed, the former president counseled Kerry on shifting the talk from Vietnam to bread-and-butter issues.
      Synonyms
      youthful, young, childlike, adolescent, teenage, teenaged, fresh-faced
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