breadwinning

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The earning of a household's primary income. uncountable
    — This could have occurred nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak—the sea entering into the life of most men, and the men knowing something or everything about the sea, in the way of amusement, of travel, or of bread-winning.

词源

From bread + winning. Compare West Frisian breawinning (“livelihood”), Dutch broodwinning (“profession”).
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