breadbasket

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈbɹɛdbɑːskɪt/    美 /ˈbɹɛdˌbæskɪt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A basket used for storing or carrying bread.
    — In theſe eaſtern countries they eat upon the plain ground, and when it is dinner-time they ſpread a round piece of leather, and lay about it tapeſtry, and ſometimes cuſhions, whereupon they ſit croſs-leg'd before they begin to eat, […] At laſt they take up the leathern table with bread and all, which ſerveth them alſo inſtead of a table-cloth and bread-basket, they draw it together with a ſtring lik a purſe, and hang it up in the next corner.
  2. A region which has favourable conditions to produce a large quantity of grain or, by extension, other food products; a food bowl.
    — [I]t is worth noting that if global warming produces a migration of the earth's breadbaskets, then it might damage one country's agriculture, while benefiting another's.
  3. The abdomen or stomach, especially as a vulnerable part of the body in an attack. humorous
    — Tom Oliver thought he'd a very heavy stake in this here affair, as he was to fight Shelton, on the 23d, for a hundred. […] (Give it them, Tom! hit them in the bread-basket!)

词形变化

breadbaskets plural bread basket alternative bread-basket alternative

词汇关系

下位词
rice bowl
衍生词
breadbasket of Europe Molotov breadbasket

词源

From bread + basket.
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