bread and butter

音標(biāo)發(fā)音

So for days and days she had nothing but bread and butter and tea.
所以好多天來她衹有黃油麪包和和茶來充飢。
Though the plant will produce 100 MW of electricity, it won't exactly wean Abu Dhabi off its bread and butter.
雖然這個(gè)工廠衹生産100兆瓦的電力，可它完全不需要阿佈紥比的人們提供麪包和黃油。
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Earlier that evening, Evelyn Thompson had guided me through a fair sampling of the ethnic groceries that are, so to speak, her bread and butter.
那天晚上早些時(shí)候，伊芙琳湯普森帶著我穿過集市，採(cǎi)購(gòu)一些有民族特色的生活用品，這麼說吧，就是她的麪包和嬭油。

There were potatoes,fresh corn, apple pies,hot bread,sweet pickles, bread and butter and honey.
Most of the recruits are not really people who have an ideology, but they do it for bread and butter.

Audi, and corporate overlord Volkswagen, have made the turbocharged engine their bread and butter.
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Something that is the bread and butter of a person or organization is the activity or work that provides the main part of their income.
Bread-and-butter issues or matters are ones which are important to most people, because they affect them personally.