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bread

/bred/US // brɛd //UK // (brɛd) //

面包

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a kind of food made of flour or meal that has been mixed with milk or water, made into a dough or batter, with or without yeast or other leavening agent, and baked.
    • : food or sustenance; livelihood: to earn one's bread.
    • : Slang. money.
    • : Ecclesiastical. the wafer or bread used in a Eucharistic service.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : Cooking. to cover with breadcrumbs or meal.

Phrases

  • bread and butter
  • break bread
  • greatest thing since sliced bread
  • know which side of bread is buttered
  • take the bread out of someone's mouth

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • For the sake of efficiency, drinks can be preordered and extra bread might accompany the steamed mussels, says Daniel Pimentel, the hotel’s general manager.

  • The manual high-lift levers let you raise even the smallest pieces of bread up above the toaster’s top, so you don’t burn your fingers when you remove it.

  • In fact, it tastes better smashed a bit, because the jam marinates the bread.

  • Yesterday, while buying bread at my favorite local restaurant-turned-grocer, I asked the owner if she had any fun weekend plans, kind of a dark joke at this point since few of us really do anything.

  • “I also hiccup if I eat bread without drinking something,” wrote Vera.

  • The tasteless bread was transformed into a sweet cake that included ingredients, such as dried fruit and marzipan.

  • Against this backdrop, Paul breaking bread with Sharpton may be too much for Republican primary voters to watch or stomach.

  • “Ovens using gas cylinders were set up to make bread under bridges, and nursing stations appeared, offering medicines,” he writes.

  • For example, Kuwait recently put a limit the allowable amount of sodium in bread to lower blood pressure.

  • “I knew Boyfriend would never really have its chance unless it became my bread-and-butter,” she says.

  • I tell you, madam, most distinctly and emphatically, that it is bread pudding and the meanest kind at that.'

  • In Tiefurt we partook of a magnificent collation consisting of a mug of beer, brown bread and sausage!

  • Newhall Street, and a new thoroughfare made in continuation of Bread Street.

  • Death comes in, the bread at the feast turns black, the hound falls down—and so on.

  • He watched the man put some bread and milk in a tin pan, and set it down on the floor of the basket.