bread-and-butter

单词bread-and-butter

基本解释

adj.: 基本的；很重要的
网络: 实用的；谋生的；谋生之道

权威解释

• 基本的；很重要的:

  basic; very important

英汉解释

• 基本的

• 〔主英〕孩子气的,不成熟的,年轻的

• 为所受款待表示谢意的

• 主要的

• 实利的,实用的

• 有关生计的,日常生活的;提供最低(生活)需要的

同义词

adj.basicprimaryfundamentalessentialimportant

反义词

adj.superfluous

例句

• She took a big bite of her bread-and-butter as she stared at the little drawing.

  她一面咬了一大口黄油面包，一面瞧着那张小画。

• Short courses, the bread and butter of many schools, are often the first to be axed by companies in the face of any economic downturn.

  在经济低迷时期，企业削减开支的第一个项目通常是短期课程，而这种课程是许多商学院的主要收入来源。

• And the little gnats of men sting his memory when they get their very bread and butter from the technical application of his ideas.

  那些人类中渺小的蚊蚋，吞食着从技术上应用他的思想而得来的黄油面包，却叮咬着他死后的名声。

• With all of her globe-trotting, matchmaking and event-planning, it"s easy to forget that Wintour"s bread and butter is running a magazine.

  环游全球、牵线搭桥以及活动策划这种种角色很容易使人忘记温图尔的本职工作是经营一本杂志。

• First she gave her a slice of fresh brown bread and butter, but the child said that she did not want it like that.

  一开始她给了自己的女儿一片新鲜的涂黄油的棕色面包，但是那个孩子说她不想要这样的。

• You may not like office work but it is no use to quarrel with your bread and butter, you have no other means of livelihood.

  你可能不喜欢办公室工作，但厌弃自己旳职业是无益旳，因为你没有其它旳生活手段。

• He does not deal with Brodweisheit; he assumes that the vulgar question of bread and butter has been settled in favour of his reader.

  他不处理Brodweisheit；先假想因读者的青睐面包奶油这类庸俗的生活问题已经得到解决。

• The miserable Hatter dropped his teacup and bread-and-butter, and went down on one knee, "I"m a poor man, your Majesty , " he began.

  那个可怜的帽匠丢掉了茶杯、奶油面包，单膝跪下说，“我是个可怜人，陛下。”

• He never took more than two slices of bread and butter to eat in the pit, so an apple or an orange was a treat to him.

  他在井下最多只吃两片黄油面包，因此有个苹果或桔子对他就是件难得的高兴事。

• But a lower credit rating will cost it when entering into the contracts that make up the bread and butter of re- insurance business .

  但是信用评级的降低将会使资金在补偿再保险交易合同的时候被消耗掉。