breadwinners

英 [ˈbrɛdˌwɪnəz] 美 [ˈbrɛˌdwɪnərz]

n.  挣钱养家的人
breadwinner的复数

柯林斯词典

  1. N-COUNT 养家糊口的人
    The breadwinner in a family is the person in it who earns the money that the family needs for essential things.
    1. I've always paid the bills and been the breadwinner.
      一直由我支付账单，维持家庭生计。
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双语例句

  1. An optimist, Mundy believes that many men will cede control as breadwinners.
    作为一名乐观主义者，芒迪认为，很多男性将卸下养家糊口的重任。
  2. Women also spoke of this regret, but as most were from an older generation, many of the female patients had not been breadwinners.
    女性也谈到这个遗憾，但大多数是来自于老年一代，许多女性病人不曾养家糊口。
  3. Men face a depressing future as their stiff upper lips start to crumble and more women become breadwinners, psychiatrists predict.
    精神病学家们预测说，男人们的未来很灰暗：他们正在摒弃喜怒不形于色的形象，而且越来越多的女性成了家庭的主要经济支柱。
  4. Many were the sole breadwinners in their families.
    很多人都是家里唯一的收入来源。
  5. The notion that women should 'marry up' endured well past the heyday of the English gentry, and the most successful breadwinners were considered the most desirable mates.
    女性应该高攀的观念在经历了英国乡绅贵族的鼎盛时期后依然深入人心，最成功的养家者会被视为最令人满意的伴侣。
  6. Roughly half of wives are the breadwinners in middle-income families.
    对于中等收入家庭而言，女性为养家主力的比例大约是一半。
  7. But beware. Women who become the chief breadwinners in their domestic partnerships are more likely to pay the price with divorce.
    但是当心了，那些在家庭中成为主要经济支柱的女性更易付出离婚的代价。
  8. The way the axe has fallen means that women have become the sole breadwinners in many households, financially supporting their partners and children.
    这种裁员模式意味着，在许多家庭里，女性已成为唯一的养家糊口者，要挣钱供养丈夫和子女。
  9. One might imagine that this gap arises simply because two breadwinners earn more than one.
    我们可能会说，这种差距的存在仅仅是因为因为两个人挣钱比一个人挣钱多。
  10. When a man makes less than his female partner, the discrepancy can challenge "the traditional notion of men as breadwinners," Munsch writes in her analysis of the results.
    当一个男人挣的要比他的女性伴侣要少的话，这差距就能挑战“传统的意义上的男人才是家里的养家糊口的人”Munsch在她的研究结果分析中写道。
  11. In West Bengal, a poor household will typically have three breadwinners doing seven occupations between them.
    在西孟加拉省，一个贫困家庭一般有三个人挣钱，从事七种工作。
  12. Millions of families are pushed deeper into hunger and poverty by the illness and death of breadwinners and by the costs of health care for the sick, funerals and support for orphans.
    许许多多家庭因养家者生病或死亡，以及病人的医疗、丧葬和孤儿养育费用，而深陷饥饿和贫穷之中。
  13. If women are being told unemployment is so high that the jobs need to kept for men since they are the breadwinners, can't women then create their own jobs?
    如果妇女被告知，由于失业率太高，工作机会必须留给男人，因为他们是家庭的经济支柱，那么妇女能不能为自己创造就业机会？
  14. I have, however, become secretly, overwhelmingly, envious of my friends, who can rely on their husbands as the breadwinners.
    不过，我开始偷偷地，不可抵抗地羡慕我的朋友们了，他们可以依靠丈夫来养家。
  15. The law still seems to regard women as meek and submissive and men as strong breadwinners.
    法律似乎仍然视女人为温顺而又唯命是从的，而男人是强壮有力的挣钱养家人。
  16. They've lost incomes, and they've lost loved ones, people who are breadwinners.
    他们失去了收入，失去了亲人，失去了家庭支柱。
  17. And experts say women will often become the main breadwinners, with more men staying at home to look after children.
    专家称女性将更多地成为家庭的主要经济支柱，同时会有更多男性待在家中照看小孩。
  18. This is down to pressure on husbands to be breadwinners, even as social pressure discouraging women from working outside the home is now practically non-existent, it is claimed.
    没了饭碗对于传统意义上“养家糊口”的男人来说可能是“灭顶之灾”，特别在当越来越大的社会压力迫使女性也担负赚钱养家压力的时代。
  19. Tobacco kills people at the height of their productivity, depriving families of breadwinners and nations of a healthy workforce.
    烟草造成年富力强的人死亡，使家庭丧失养家糊口的人和使国家丧失健康的劳动力。
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