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 breadwinner ['brɛd`wɪnɚ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 负担家计的人

  1. He knows and accepts the fact that his wife may be the breadwinner.
    他明白，他妻子所挣的钱可能是家庭收入的主要来源，他接受这一事实。
  2. I hope the men can accommodate what's going to happen," says Mortenson," When the woman becomes the main breadwinner in the family.
    莫增森说：“当妇女成了家庭的主要经济支柱时，我希望男人们能适应将发生的情况。
  3. Not only is he the breadwinner of the family, he also takes care of the children's food and clothes and helps them with their homework.
    他不但要出去工作维持家庭的生活，而且他还得料理孩子们的饭食和衣服以及帮助他们做家庭作业。


breadwinner
[ noun ]
one whose earnings are the primary source of support for their dependents
<noun.person>


Breadwinner \Bread"win`ner\ (br[e^]d"w[i^]n`n[~e]r), n.
The member of a family whose labor supplies the food of the
family; one who works for his living. --H. Spencer.

  1. About two-thirds of the nation's breadwinner wives have only high-school degrees and hold low-paying secretarial, sales and service-sector jobs.
  2. Layoffs have made others the family breadwinner. "The financial pressure on women will continue for some time," Ms. Thompson says.
  3. Conversely, she says, when a fired woman is the major breadwinner, a husband may be "very threatened" if she doesn't rush out to find a new job.
  4. But the first thing to understand about the Bowen proposal is that it has nothing whatever to do with the illness of a 40-year-old breadwinner with three mouths to feed.
  5. In the old Depression movies, there is usually a scene where the harassed breadwinner turns to his wife (invariably Irene Dunne) and says: "If we could only get a few bucks ahead."
  6. As the male breadwinner is replaced by a host of demographic variables, more companies are finding that benefits can't be reduced to a simple common package.
  7. He takes over from Peter Lloyd, who is retiring early on medical grounds. When his father died at the age of nine, Haghighi became the family breadwinner, combining his small tobacconist/confectionery kiosk with his schooling.
  8. Many breadwinner wives say they also succeed in masking the salary difference by filling traditional roles at home.
  9. "It's like the breadwinner leaving the home with a one-time payment," said Gerald Lewinsohn of Merrill Lynch.
  10. But while the number of breadwinner wives in more affluent jobs is still small, their numbers are growing rapidly.
  11. And when the disease hits a fisherman, like Yelitza's father, it means one less breadwinner for the family and one more burden for a sister or daughter.
  12. Icahn's "breadwinner" remarks were "foolish and offensive," Sachs said.
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