朋友們,大家好!歡迎來到英語乾貨街。今天分享一句習語「bread and water」 它可不僅僅是「麵包和水」的意思哦,它還有下面這層意思。
bread and water|plainest possible food 簡單的飲食,粗茶淡飯。
I have to live on bread and water when I was a university student.
當我還是個大學生的時候,只能靠粗茶淡飯生活。
Almost all the families live on bread and water in 1980s. What a hard time !
在上世紀八十年代,幾乎家家都過著粗茶淡飯的日子,日子真艱難啊!
This stray dog is so pathetic, it's better to live on only bread and water than to eat a stone.
這隻流浪狗真可憐,哪怕粗茶淡飯也比吃石子強。