breadwinner

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /ˈbɹɛdˌwɪnɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The primary income-earner in a household.
    — At one side lay the little town of Hollingford, into a street of which Mr. Gibson's front door opened; and delicate columns, and little puffs of smoke were already beginning to rise from many a cottage chimney where some housewife was already up, and preparing breakfast for the bread-winner of the family.

词形变化

breadwinners plural

词源

From bread + winner, where to win = to earn. Compare West Frisian breawinning (“livelihood”, literally “bread-winning”), Dutch broodwinning (“livelihood”).
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