breadwinner
breadwinner 英 [ˈbredwɪnə(r)] 美 [ˈbrɛdˌwɪnɚ]
n. 负担家计的人；养家糊口的人
名词复数:breadwinners
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- n. 负担家计的人；养家糊口的人
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1. Will you expect to live along traditional lines: woman as homemaker and man as breadwinner ?
你希望按照传统方式生活吗？女人做家庭主妇，男人养家糊口？
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2. Ever since her husband was paralyzed in an auto accident， she's been the only breadwinner in the family， and it certainly keeps her busy.
自从她丈夫出了汽车事故瘫痪以来，她就成了家里唯一挣钱养家的人了。 这确实把她弄得非常忙碌。
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3. Many return to families crippled by debt from months without a breadwinner.
许多人回到家中不能养家糊口，数月以来负债累累。
- breadwinner (n.) also bread-winner, "one who supplies a living for himself and others," especially a family, 1821, from the noun bread (probably in a literal sense) + winner, from win (v.) in its sense of "struggle for, work at." Attested slightly earlier (1818) in sense "skill or art by which one makes a living." Not too far removed from the image at the root of lord (n.).
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