| 词汇 | bread-and-butter |
| 释义 | bread and butter noun[ U ] uk /ˌbred ən ˈbʌt.ər/ us /ˌbred ən ˈbʌt̬.ɚ/ your bread and butter a job or activity that provides you with the money you need to live: 谋生的职业；谋生之道 Gardening is my bread and butter right now.眼下园艺工作是我的谋生之道。 Synonym livelihood Compare livingnoun Earning money assessable bank base pay basic basic income disposable income hand over fistidiom in arrearsidiom line your pocket(s)idiom make an honest livingidiom performance-related pro bono pro rata profit from something prorate pull raise retainer revenue sick pay bread-and-butter adjective[ before noun ] uk /ˌbred ən ˈbʌt.ər/ us /ˌbred ən ˈbʌt̬.ɚ/ basic and relating directly to most people's needs and interests: 实用的;生计的;基本的 bread-and-butter issue Health and employment are the kind of bread-and-butter issues that people vote on. Most people are focused on ordinary, bread-and-butter concerns. 大多数人都专注于普通的、最基本的问题。 The governor is emphasizing the bread-and-butter priorities. Ordinary people care about bread-and-butter issues. The company’s bread-and-butter business is printers and ink. General abstract abstraction abstractly across-the-board all-purpose broad broadness by and largeidiom chiefly coarse-grained essence general literally mostly nomothetic non-personal on the wholeidiom overall sense whole bread and butter | American Dictionarybread and butter noun[ U ] us/ˈbred ən ˈbʌt̬·ər/ the way someone earns the money needed to live: I do a lot of photography, but accounting is my bread and butter. bread-and-butter adjective[ not gradable ] us/ˈbred·ənˈbʌt̬·ər/ of the most basic kind and directly relating to most people: Health and education are the sort of bread-and-butter issues that people vote on. bread and butter | Business Englishbread and butter noun[ U ] informalukus a job or activity that provides a person's or organization's main income: Small-business clients are our bread and butter. Examples of bread and butterbread and butter Lists, higher order functions, user-defined data types, and tree structures fill out the remaining breadandbutter chapters. But the breadandbutter of these institutions is literature. To give themselves solid centres publishers seek niche markets, either regional or professional, which will provide them with reasonably certain breadandbutter. The breadandbutter of the book trade was traditionally the sale of school textbooks through small shops and in the marketplace. Simple cases, in which a moral agent meets a need, are the breadandbutter of everyday moral practice. I suppose it would allow us to engage with the 'breadandbutter' of what we do on the podium. Why put such terms as "culture shock" (p. 88), "vanguard" (p. 91) and "breadandbutter" (p. 99) in quotation marks? And the groups who have representatives therein secure their ' daily breadandbutter ' from government through them. This unavoidable need to dabble with basic interactions is the breadandbutter of programming work. They expressed this as 'handing over the breadandbutter work'. These are the breadandbutter of the soft news media. For them, data variability which originates in individual differences (in response to a given situation) is a main ingredient of the "breadandbutter" of their research. A number of stories are about reasonably established companies in the document processing space whose breadandbutter still seems to be term-based information retrieval and document categorisation. The breadandbutter of partnership work is close relations with police community consultative groups. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I thought it was right to explain in a few simple words this matter which is breadandbutter to every family in this country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of bread and butter These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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