bread
bread — 名詞
1. baked food from a flour mixture, usually eaten as a loaf, slice, or roll.
麵包
麵粉烘烤成的主食
baked food from a flour mixture, usually eaten as a loaf, slice, or roll.
Mei bought warm bread from the bakery before school.
Mei 上學前先去麵包店買了熱麵包。
collocation: warm bread
The soup tastes better with fresh bread and a little butter.
這碗湯配上新鮮麵包和一點奶油會更好吃。
collocation: fresh bread
At breakfast, Omar put jam on a piece of bread.
早餐時，Omar 在一片麵包上抹果醬。
pattern: a piece of bread
We baked bread at home when the storm closed the shops.
暴風雨讓商店都關了，所以我們在家烤麵包。
The children shared bread and cheese beside the lake.
孩子們在湖邊分著吃麵包和起司。
- fresh bread
- warm bread
- slice of bread
- piece of bread
- loaf of bread
- white bread
- brown bread
文法句型
bread
a slice of bread
a piece of bread
a loaf of bread
用法筆記
Usually uncountable when you mean the food in general. For one unit, English normally uses words like 'slice', 'piece', or 'loaf' rather than 'a bread'.
常見錯誤
2. money, especially in casual or dated talk about what a person earns or needs.
錢；收入
較舊口語，指錢
money, especially in casual or dated talk about what a person earns or needs.
The band plays weddings on weekends to earn extra bread.
那個樂團週末去婚禮表演，好多賺一點錢。
pattern: earn bread
Noa needs more bread before she can rent her own flat.
Noa 得先有更多錢，才租得起自己的公寓。
pattern: need bread
That summer job gave Ravi enough bread for a used bike.
那份暑期工作讓 Ravi 有足夠的錢買一台二手腳踏車。
Grandpa still calls money bread when he jokes about work.
爺爺開工作玩笑時，現在還會把錢叫作 bread。
register: dated informal use
- earn bread
- make bread
- extra bread
- enough bread
文法句型
earn bread
make bread
need bread
用法筆記
Common with verbs like 'earn', 'make', and 'need'. Distinguish from the idiom 'your daily bread': this sense means money itself, while the idiom points more broadly to the things a person lives on.
常見錯誤
said about a new thing that seems amazingly useful, exciting, or impressive.
好到不行；超厲害
Theo says the new bus app is the best thing since sliced bread.
At work, everyone treated the new printer like the best thing since sliced bread.
your daily bread
idiomthe food and other simple necessities a person needs each day to live.
基本口糧；生計
For years, the sea provided the islanders with their daily bread.
After the factory closed, many families worried about their daily bread.
used to say that getting a small part of what you wanted is still better than getting nothing.
有總比沒有好
The grant was small, but half a loaf is better than no bread.
Uncle Farouk accepted the smaller room, saying half a loaf is better than no bread.
to understand where your own benefit lies and behave in a way that protects it.
懂得看風向；知道靠誰
Rohan praised the director because he knows which side his bread is buttered.
The adviser backed the richest donor because she knew which side her bread was buttered.
to remove the work or pay that keeps someone able to live.
斷人生計
Cheap imports took the bread out of local farmers' mouths.
Closing the mill would take the bread out of two hundred families' mouths.
To remove someone's ability to earn money for basic needs.
奪走某人的生計
The new factory took the bread out of local farmers' mouths.
Did the automation take the bread out of workers' mouths?
bread — 動詞
- breadpresent simple I / you / we / they
- breads3rd person singular
- breading-ing form
- breadedpast simple
1. to put bread crumbs on the outside of meat, fish, or vegetables before cooking t
裹麵包粉
在食物外層沾麵包粉
to put bread crumbs on the outside of meat, fish, or vegetables before cooking them.
Chef Hana breaded the fish before frying it for lunch.
Hana 主廚先把魚裹上麵包粉，再拿去炸當午餐。
pattern: bread + object + before + gerund
The cook breads each chicken piece, then lays it on a tray.
廚師把每塊雞肉都裹上麵包粉，然後放到烤盤上。
pattern: bread + object
At home, Yusuf breaded the eggplant with crumbs and cheese.
Yusuf 在家把茄子裹上麵包粉和起司。
The pork was breaded lightly so the sauce could still soak in.
那塊豬肉只輕輕裹了麵包粉，這樣醬汁還能滲進去。
passive: be breaded
- bread fish
- bread chicken
- bread lightly
- be breaded
文法句型
bread + object
bread + object + before + gerund
be breaded
用法筆記
Object is usually food that will be fried or baked, especially meat, fish, or vegetables. Frequently appears in recipes and in the passive form 'be breaded'.