bread: n.1.面包。2.食物，粮食；〔比喻〕生计，生活必需品。3.【基督教】(圣餐式上的)一块[份]面包。4.〔美俚〕钱。短语和例子a slice of bread 一块面包。 black [brown] bread黑面包。 the bread of life 活命粮。 one's daily bread 每天的食物。 beg one's bread 讨饭，行乞。 bread b
It is easy to see how even a family which had had as good food as it wished and a few extras could be down to bread and scrape the barrel inside a month if the " demon drink " took hold 即使是一个本来想吃得好些就能吃得好些、尚有盈余可供某些别的开支的家庭，倘若嗜上酒来，则在不到一个月的时间里，就可以穷落下来，以致只能吃面包及必须掏尽家底，不难明白这种现象究竟是怎么回事。
