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n.等待分配救济食物的队伍¹⁰⁰复数breadlines
Noun:
a queue of people waiting for free food19世纪70年代纽约市有家维也纳式面包店，老板Lewis Fleischmann为了向公众表明店里出售的都是当天烤的新鲜面包，特在每晚11时把当天没卖掉的面包，不论有多少，全部施舍给穷人。因此，每天晚上在面包店门口都可见一些穷人在排队等候领取施舍。据认为breadline 一词便是这时应运而生的，被用来表示“等侯领施舍或救济食物的队伍”，到了20世纪30年代美国大萧条时期 Great Depression该词得到更为广泛的使用。基于该词产生的短语on the breadline常用于口语，表示“非常穷的”，“仅能维持生活的”。breadline-线⇒n.等待分配救济食物的队伍近义词 bread line待分救济队伍…
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用作名词We've been living on thebreadlinefor weeks.几个星期以来我们一直吃了上顿没下顿。as in.poverty line
同义词 bare existence,hand-to-mouth existence,mere existence,pauperism,poverty trap,subsistence level
poverty linenoun poverty level
bare existence,hand-to-mouth existence,mere existence,pauperism,poverty trap,subsistence level I thought of Matthew’s mangled words, Toby’s pocked cheeks, and the hungry people in the breadline waiting for loaves like soft round wishes.
我想着马修残缺不全的话语，托比那布满痘痕的脸颊，还有饥饿的人们排队等待救济面包就像等待一个个柔软的、圆圆的希望。 yeeyan
Matthew worked in Father’s dye factory, fortunate to have a job when most of the rest of the town stood on the breadline.
马修在父亲的染厂工作，镇上多数人都在排队领救济，他很幸运还有份工作。 yeeyan
Now, though many— perhaps most— Zimbabweans are still on the breadline and 80% have no jobs, at least those in work can predict their income.
现在，即便很多，也许是大多数津巴布韦人仍旧在排队领面包，80%的人没有工作，但是至少那些有工作的能预见自己的收入。 ecocn
One in three children in Britain today lives below the breadline, while bankers sulk if their annual bonus falls to a paltry million pounds.
今天，生活在大不列单的儿童，每三个中就有一个排在等待领取救济的队伍中，与此同时，银行家们因为年度分红略有下降而愠怒不已。 yeeyan
Otherwise, even a return to brisk economic growthsomething that scarcely looks likely right now will not be enough to rescue them from the breadline.
否则，即使恢复强劲的经济增长当前，这似乎不太可能发生也不足以帮助他们摆脱救助。 ecocn
The widow and her children are on the breadline.
这个寡妇和她的孩子们日子过得很苦。 iciba
They are not well off, but they are not on the breadline.
他们虽然不富，却也没有挣扎在贫困线上。 vvcha |