breadwinner
breadwinner 英 [ˈbredwɪnə(r)] 美 [ˈbrɛdˌwɪnɚ]
n. 负担家计的人；养家糊口的人
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- n. 负担家计的人；养家糊口的人
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1. male breadwinner
男性养家者
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2. When her husband died she had to become the breadwinner.
她丈夫死后，她不得不赚钱养家。
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3. Her father is a real breadwinner of the family.
她父亲可是家里的经济支柱。
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4. He is our breadwinner.
他得养活我们。
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5. But the last two years, you've been the breadwinner.
但在过去两年里一直是你在养家。
- 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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