喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture a coming out of the oven: flour and water, baked, cut into slices, eaten every day by most of the world. Because it is the most everyday food there is, English has long used it to talk about the everyday money that keeps a person fed.

可以想成：剛出爐的一條麵包——麵粉加水烤成，切成片，全世界大半的人天天在吃。正因為它是最日常的食物，英文很早就拿它來…更多收起可以想成：剛出爐的一條麵包——麵粉加水烤成，切成片，全世界大半的人天天在吃。正因為它是最日常的食物，英文很早就拿它來講「養活自己的那份錢」。

From the picture

固定說法：養活自己的那份收入

麵包加奶油是最普通的一餐，於是被拿來指「讓你餐桌上有東西的那份工作」。兩句都是整串固定的口語說法，bread 單獨不會表示收入。

bread and butter · noun · A1

Someone's bread and butter is the main work or activity that earns them most of their money.

主要收入來源／生計

俚語：錢

把「麵包等於生計」再簡化一步，直接拿 bread 當錢講。這是特定年代的俚語，現在多半只在老歌、老電影裡聽到。

money (slang) · noun · A1

An old, informal word for money.

錢

Also in this word

bread (food) · noun · A1

A common food made from flour and water mixed together and baked in an oven.

麵包

原始詞典資料9 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

breadnoun詞源 1/brɛd/

  • 1

    A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.

  • 2

    A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.

    • We made sandwiches with the bread we bought from the bakery.
    • My mother used to send me for the bread.
  • 3

    Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.

    • Give us this day our daily bread.
  • 4

    Any variety of bread.

    • Some breads are harder and drier than others.
  • 5

    slangMoney.

    • Maybe somebody would see him and recognize him, maybe one of the guys would lay enough bread on him for a meal or at least subway fare.
    • […] save up all your bread, and fly Trans-Love Airways to San Francisco, USA.

breadverb詞源 1/brɛd/

  • 1

    To coat with breadcrumbs.

    • breaded fish

breadnoun詞源 2/brɛd/

  • 1

    obsoletedialectalBreadth.

breadverb詞源 3/brɛd/

  • 1

    To form in meshes; net.

breadnoun詞源 3/brɛd/

  • 1

    A piece of embroidery; a braid.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。