bread-and-butter [
'brɛdn.'bʌtɚ]
a. (英)年轻的, 女学生派头的, 不成熟的, 关于生计的, 日常生活的
- Gary: I can't. It's my bread-and-butter.
盖瑞:不行啊。这是我的收入生计。 - Fast medium zooms: For pros, bread-and-butter lenses.
高速中焦变焦:专业人员的实用镜头。 - You need less book- learning and more bread-and-butter learning.
你需要少学些书本知识,多学些实际知识。
- Khashoggi's bread-and-butter was guns.
- UCC's bread-and-butter products are not being neglected, and new versions of the CM20 are in the pipeline.
- What emerges from an examination of BCCI's bread-and-butter businesses is a remarkably close, but global parallel to the ancient Pakistani money-transfer system, known as hundi.
- But it also said rank-and-file teachers are unwilling to accept reforms as a substitute for bread-and-butter improvements in their basic working conditions.
- Most observers say Brazil's poor majority are far more concerned with bread-and-butter issues than political intrigue.
- Many agencies find there's still lots of yen to be made in the bread-and-butter business of detectives everywhere: chasing illicit affairs.
- "But what really concerns people in the pews are the bread-and-butter issues like family and spiritual life.
- Leading the list of potential troubles this time is Crum & Forster's bread-and-butter property-casualty insurance business, whose results have been hurt by cyclical price-cutting.
- The reason for this abrupt switch: Chrysler has heaped a lot on its plate at a time when car sales, the bread-and-butter of its earnings power, are dropping.
- Handling controversial issues is standard bread-and-butter work at the FDA.
- At the same time, competition has cut profit margins in securities underwriting, the bread-and-butter of investment banking activities.
- The Japanese assault on the U.S. luxury-car market has grabbed the spotlight, but just beneath all that glitter, Honda is aiming its bread-and-butter Accord at the heart of Detroit's home market: midsized, midpriced, family cars.
- The all-new Legacy is designed to be the bread-and-butter model of the 1990s for Subaru, which imports cars made by Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. of Japan.
- We diners will watch helpless as what we fail to eat is swept away, to be thrown into bins of sheer wastage; while the children silently, incredulously, watch us. There will not be a tea-urn in sight; nor even the simplest slice of bread-and-butter.
- Against that bread-and-butter question lie other issues, some divorced from the orginal conservation intent of the law.
- The smaller company, though, fears losing the audience for its bread-and-butter production _ the popular Christmas classic choreographed to Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker Suite."
- A critical issue facing the delegates is whether the union should largely confine itself to bread-and-butter issues defending workers' interests, or get more involved in politics.
- Its powers, while not negligible, do not seem to the electors to relate to their bread-and-butter concerns. Since the fall of communism in 1989 Europe has entered a period of uncertainty.
- Mainstream retail banks' best skill is the bread-and-butter of deposit-taking and lending.
- Ford's weak performance in the passenger-car market was largely the result of poor sales of two bread-and-butter models.
- "Politics, and especially the lack of even the most basic democratic rights for the majority of our people, is a bread-and-butter issue for the working class," says Elijah Barayi, Cosatu's president.
- Hyundai's bread-and-butter model is a subcompact, the Excel, a market segment that has been sluggish this year.
- The RAND report said rank-and-file teachers are unwilling to accept reforms as a substitute for bread-and-butter improvements in their basic working conditions.
- Virtually every other major competitor in this bread-and-butter market segment does.
- The machine is so fast it threatens to cannibalize Digital's own sales of its bread-and-butter Vax large-computer line.
- But unfortunately, that segment is much smaller than the bread-and-butter flat-rolled steel.
- The campaign centered on bread-and-butter issues and the contrasting personalities of Seaga and Manley.
- Eight months and countless promises later, the original bread-and-butter demands have become political.