bread
/bred/noun
mass noun
1- food made of flour, water, and yeast mixed together and baked面包：
a loaf of bread
一个面包
as modifier a bread roll面包卷
count noun Italian breads.意大利面包。
1.1
- the bread or wafer used in the Eucharist（圣餐中的）饼：
altar bread.
祭饼。
1.2
- informal the money or food that one needs in order to live〈非正式〉（生存所必需的）钱（或食物）; 生计：
I hate doing this, but I need the bread
我不喜欢做这个, 然而我得赚钱糊口
his day job puts bread on the table.
他白天做工以维持生计。
短语
be the best（或 greatest）thing since sliced bread
- informal used to emphasize one's enthusiasm about a new idea, person, or thing〈非正式〉最好的东西（用于强调对新思想, 人物或事物的热忱）。
bread and circuses
- used to refer to a diet of entertainment or political policies on which the masses are fed to keep them happy and docile面包和马戏观赏（指为安抚目的给予群众的好处或实施的政策）; 食物和娱乐。
- [ORIGIN: translating Latin panem et circenses （Juvenal's Satires, x.80）.]
bread and water
- a frugal diet that is eaten in poverty, chosen in abstinence, or given as a punishment（因贫困、节食或作为惩罚而吃的）面包和白开水; 粗茶淡饭。
bread and wine
- the consecrated elements used in the celebration of the Eucharist; the sacrament of the Eucharist圣餐。
the bread of life
- something regarded as a source of spiritual nourishment精神食粮。
break bread
1
- celebrate the Eucharist分圣餐; 领圣餐。
1.1
- dated share a meal with someone〈旧〉共餐。
one cannot live by bread alone
- people have spiritual as well as physical needs人无法仅靠面包生活; 精神需要和肉体需要同等重要。
- ORIGIN: with biblical allusion to Deut. 8:3, Matt. 4:4.
cast one's bread upon the waters
- do good without expecting gratitude or reward不期望报答地做好事, 真心行善不求回报。with biblical allusion Eccles. 11:1.
one's daily bread
- the money or food that one needs in order to live生活必需品; 食物：
she earned her daily bread by working long hours.
她日夜工作以赚钱糊口。
know which side one's bread is buttered (on)
- informal know where one's advantage lies〈非正式〉明白自己的利益之所在; 善于为自己打算。
take the bread out of（或 from）people's mouths
- deprive people of their livings by competition or unfair working practices抢某人的饭碗, 夺某人的生计。
want one's bread buttered on both sides
- informal want more than is practicable or than is reasonable to expect〈非正式〉抱有不切实际的希望; 提出不合情理的要求。
词源
Old English brēad, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch brood and German Brot.