时间:2018-12-16 作者:英语课 分类:美国习惯用语


英语课

   今天我们要讲的美国习惯用语是:bread and butter。Bread是面包的意思,butter是黄油的意思,面包和黄油都是西方人经常吃的东西; bread and butter连在一起在英语里就是生计,主要收入来源的意思。


  我前两天刚刚跟美国习惯用语的作者之一Steve出去吃饭。对他来说,帮我们做节目只是兼职,并不是他的bread and butter,教外国学生学英语才是他的bread and butter. 让我们听听下面这个人邻居的bread and butter是什么。
  例句-1:When I saw my neighbor Katie's artwork at a gallery, I was amazed by her talent. I assumed that painting was her bread and butter. But she told me that it's only a hobby; she couldn't live on the money she makes from the paintings she sells.
  他说:我在展厅里看到我的邻居凯蒂的画儿后,简直被她的艺术才华折服了。我以为绘画就是她的收入来源,但她告诉我,画画只不过是她的一个爱好,因为卖画赚的钱不够她维持生计。
  我有个表哥,从小就喜欢雕塑。有一次我过生日,他送给我一件自己的作品。我以为是一棵树,但他告诉我说,那是我在跳舞。不用说,雕塑始终也没有成为他的bread and butter.
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  我们刚才说bread and butter是指一个人的主要收入来源。其实,bread and butter还可以指一种工作或一个行业的基本业务。比如说农民,他们大部分时间都在耕种和收获。这就是他们工作的bread and butter. 让我们看看下面这家汽车制造厂。
  例句-2:After poor sales of our economy cars, our company decided 1 to focus once again on producing luxury vehicles. After all, it's those models that have always been the foundation of our business. They're our bread and butter.
  这家厂子的一个工人说:我们厂生产的经济型轿车销路不好,所以厂里决定重新把生产重点转向豪华轿车。毕竟,豪华轿车一直就是我们厂的核心产品。
  美国著名大公司的核心产品我想大家都知道。比如说Starbucks, 星巴克的主打商品是咖啡。再比如Apple,苹果公司是生产电脑的,这些都是它们的bread and butter.
  我星期天要去看芭蕾舞,剧目是天鹅湖,是这家芭蕾舞团的看家剧目,也就是他们的bread and butter. 我简直等不及了。

1 decided
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
标签: 美国习惯用语
学英语单词
AAPMR,A.A.P.M.R.
absinthe oils
Akkerman
at one sitting
bank measurement
be cognizant of
boo-boo,booboo
brain-training
Bryant,Gridley
cambered mold
choquette
clevis bolt
cluster warhead
coarse crystalline material
coinjection moulding
coloradoans
corn-flour
coronix
coupled transmission line
crosswise packing
detriment
Drackenstein
Duffy, Sir Charles Gavan
eddy-current crack detector
elastic spring back
fabric resilience
feline agranu locytosis
fertility ratio
free-field method
freeze etch replica
frequency-shift communication
games theory
Giesl ejector
GM_hard
hot coppers
hot drawn steel pipe
inhibit pulse
inner vestibule
interest bearing deposit
intracerebral injection
Ir-gene
irrotational strain
Ligamentum supraspinale
lightboxes
lior
lubrication-hole
macularis
melancholiness
Merrillanthus hainanensis
microdetmatome
minimum frontal diameter
moithered
Momskiy Khrebet
Mornay sauce
national institute of the art
natural colour reception
nautical plotting chart
naval warfare
non-additive
on the pin
one's chickens come home to roost
open-mouthedness
orthotectic deposit
outer collar
ovalescent
particle path
plonk
prazoogenetes orcula
quasi-identity
ratajczak
rebreathing oxygen system
respiration quotient
riffle calender
saiches
scrum
scum off
second-guessed
second-most
segmented genome
self-indexing file
self-productions
singular weighting designs
slack condition
Socreds
Sodom
sosan
spasmodic tic
spiral lobe type compressor
subility
swaps out
Tabasco
talked
telemental health
tetanoroxin
the ides of march
top tray meal
tortrix
tsarina
twisteroo
ulmoside
vapor movement
viscusi