英语词汇“bread”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

bread

(bred )

Word forms: breads , breading , breaded

1. variable noun A1

Bread is a very common food made from flour, water, and yeast.

...a loaf of bread.

...bread and butter.

There is more fibre in wholemeal bread than in white bread.

2. to know what side your bread is buttered on phrase [Vs inflect]

If you say that someone knows what side their bread is buttered on, you mean that they know what to do or who to please in order to stay in a good situation or to avoid a bad one.

These chaps know what side their bread's buttered on.

3. uncountable noun [usually with poss]

If you earn your bread doing a particular job or activity, you earn your money doing it. [informal]

There's not a living soul in Colorado who doesn't depend for his bread on silver.

4. verb [usually passive]

If food such as fish or meat is breaded, it is covered in tiny pieces of dry bread called breadcrumbs. It can then be fried or grilled.

It is important that food be breaded just minutes before frying. [be VERB-ed]

breaded adjective

...breaded fish.

Idioms:

your bread and butter

the main way that you earn money

`Who's your audience?' `We play maybe a hundred colleges a year. That is our bread and butter.'

know which side your bread is buttered on

to understand fully how you are likely to benefit from a situation, and know what to do or who to please in order to put yourself in the best possible situation

Donald was a man who knew with utter clarity which side his bread was buttered on.

cast your bread upon the waters [literary]

to do something good or take a risk, usually without expecting very much in return

You should make time to offer assistance to others. It's a case of casting your bread upon the waters – who knows how the favour will be repaid.

bread and circuses

used to describe a situation in which a government tries to take attention away from real problems or issues, by providing people with things which seem to make their lives more enjoyable

Metternich proceeded to neutralize political dissent through a policy of bread and circuses.

the best thing since sliced bread or the greatest thing since sliced bread

something that someone thinks is very good, original, and exciting

When your programme first started I thought it was the best thing since sliced bread. But over the last three months I think you have adopted an arrogant attitude.

Collocations:

bread dough

We spend the next hour burning lumps of bread dough, speared on sticks, over the campfire.

Times, Sunday Times

Lightly flour the work surface and knead the dough with the heel of one hand as you might with bread dough.

Times, Sunday Times

He makes unpronounceable pastries with bread dough.

Times, Sunday Times

Let them snip chives, crush garlic, spin salad, feel bread dough.

Times, Sunday Times

Bread dough left overnight on a heating grate would rise so much it would explode.

Globe and Mail

bread machine

Luckily for your girth, the bread machine has a distinct life cycle.

Times, Sunday Times

If you've got a bread machine languishing at the back of a cupboard somewhere, it's well worth giving it a second chance.

The Sun

I mainly use my bread machine for making pizza dough at weekends.

The Sun

If you are one of my fellow fanatics about baking bread - by hand, please, not in a bread machine - three steps will make the process easier on the planet.

Times, Sunday Times

By week three pasta makers, bread machines and food processors were being snapped up as lockdown turned people into adventurous home chefs.

Times,Sunday Times

bread oven

The bread oven at the rectory was kept hot after the household baking so that others could make use of it.

Times, Sunday Times

It has an original stone bread oven, oak-beamed ceilings, a sitting room and two bedrooms on the first floor.

Times, Sunday Times

It has a traditional country feel, with an amazing kitchen with stone fireplace and original bread oven.

Times, Sunday Times

The original one comes with a bread oven and a vat for boiling water.

Times, Sunday Times

First they dry wood in something like a bread oven.

Times, Sunday Times

bread recipe

It's sometimes hard to write a bread recipe because you can't convey the texture or the way the dough should feel.

Times, Sunday Times

Chop roughly and incorporate into a soda bread recipe, with pumpkin seeds.

Times, Sunday Times

Alfalfa soon sprouted on their gravesites and their relatives harvested it, incorporating it into a family bread recipe.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

Like most soda bread recipes, it uses bicarbonate of soda instead of yeast, as well as buttermilk and half wholemeal, half plain flour.

Times,Sunday Times

Put in 'banana bread' and you will be offered a tab called recipes that has culled the top-rated banana bread recipes from the web.

Times, Sunday Times

chunk of bread

Serve it with almost anything: potatoes, pasta, rice or polenta, bread or a chunk of bread or over bruschetta.

Times, Sunday Times

This bean and vegetable soup can make a good main course when you have it with a chunk of bread.

Times, Sunday Times

If you want to serve this with a warm chunk of bread, add 100 calories per 50g piece.

The Sun

Serve with a chunk of bread.

The Sun

I only managed to gulp mine down with a large chunk of bread.

The Sun

crusty bread

Mixed with separately cooked peas and beans and eaten with crusty bread and butter, this recipe adapts for chicken fillet or lamb's kidneys.

Times, Sunday Times (2014)

Meanwhile, avoid spicy and acidic foods, crusty bread, and toothpastes containing sodium lauryl sulphate.

The Sun (2017)

A perfect duvet-day treat - serve with crusty bread.

Times, Sunday Times (2017)

Cut two slices of crusty bread into chunks for dipping into the cheese.

The Sun (2015)

Add the last of the parsley and serve with crusty bread and unsalted butter.

Times, Sunday Times (2011)

fresh bread

Even small villages have pharmacies (and fresh bread shops).

Times, Sunday Times (2014)

Strawberries and fresh bread dominate this full-flavoured pink bubbly.

Globe and Mail (2003)

Pasta, fresh bread and legumes also feature highly.

The Sun (2017)

The menu changes weekly and fresh bread is made every day — try the smoked salmon open sandwich.

Times, Sunday Times (2015)

The breakfasts are legendary: fresh bread, pastries, cheese and smoked meats plus homemade jam and apple juice from the owners' orchard.

Times, Sunday Times (2013)

fried bread

It was a big breakfast of bacon, egg and fried bread which faced me when I had finished my ablutions.

Secombe, Fred GOODBYE CURATE

On the menu was chips, fried eggs, fried bread and baked beans: sixteen bob.

Dexter Petley WHITE LIES (2003)

The first was a clever and utterly indulgent twist on onion soup (with toasted cheese on fried bread).

The Sun (2014)

homemade bread

Others use the group to share information on must-see television programmes, good books, exercise websites, gardening tips and recipes for homemade bread.

Times,Sunday Times

Plump and juicy, they are ideally served in a mariniere sauce with crusty homemade bread or chunky chips.

The Sun

Try, though—you'll need some exercise before you sample homemade bread and other delights at the restaurant.

Times, Sunday Times

Our homemade bread used to go off in two to four days.

Times,Sunday Times

The home-grown garden herb and leaf salad and homemade bread are not to be missed.

Times, Sunday Times

loaf of bread

I shout at the recipe, trying to copy her very first step: wringing out a sopping-wet loaf of bread (yes, you read that right).

Times, Sunday Times (2010)

The average home cost 2,100 while a loaf of bread was 2½ p, or sixpence in old money.

The Sun (2008)

Think rich and you make money, think poor and someone steals your loaf of bread.

Anita Anderson SOMEBODY (2002)

It's just a quart of milk and a loaf of bread.

Al Ries and Laura Ries THE 22 IMMUTABLE LAWS OF BRANDING (2002)

potato bread

Homemade potato bread rolls, fat, oily and irresistible, to be swooped through swirls of chillied crab butter.

Times,Sunday Times

You could add curry powder to the potato bread, put walnuts in the seeded loaf — anything goes.

Times, Sunday Times

Add the potato bread and cook over a fairly low heat for 5-10 min, turning once, until browned on both sides and cooked through.

Times, Sunday Times

Cut the potato breads in two.

The Sun

sourdough bread

It's touristy, but fun, with street performers, seals and plenty of places selling clam chowder — here served in hollowed-out sourdough bread.

Times, Sunday Times (2012)

Use multigrain or sourdough bread to keep you feeling full for longer.

Times, Sunday Times (2008)

stale bread

For the pangrattato, tear up the stale bread, discarding the crusts, and add to a food processor.

The Sun

To make them, simply put stale bread into a food processor and give it a couple of blasts.

Times, Sunday Times

Pulse stale bread into crumbs, adding a few anchovies, garlic, lemon zest, mint and salt and pepper to the mix.

Times, Sunday Times

To test, drop in a cube of stale bread.

Times, Sunday Times

Meanwhile, place the stale bread in a food processor and blitz to fine breadcrumbs.

The Sun

toast bread

Toast bread on both sides to make bruschetta, and serve with caponata.

Times, Sunday Times

Toast bread, spread with butter, cover lavishly with cold tomato and hide with slices of ham.

Times, Sunday Times

Toast bread, spread with soft goat or spreadable feta and pile with leek.

Times, Sunday Times

Toast bread on one side, then turn and spread with the tuna mixture.

Times,Sunday Times

Toast bread and peel the garlic.

Times, Sunday Times

warm bread

You can watch the chefs prepare your fresh seafood through the open kitchen while dipping warm bread into smoked mackerel pâté and garlic mayonnaise.

Times, Sunday Times

We've learned the joy of welcoming folks in for a simple supper of soup and warm bread.

Christianity Today

A big bowl of vegetable and bean soup served with a warm bread roll.

The Sun

Designed for retailers, it mixes, kneads, bakes and sells warm bread within 90 minutes, producing 265 loaves a day.

Times, Sunday Times

That's the problem with fresh-baked warm bread: it tends to get eaten rather rapidly.

Times,Sunday Times

Translations:

Chinese: 面包

Japanese: パン

单词	bread
释义	bread (bred ) Word forms: breads , breading , breaded 1. variable noun A1 Bread is a very common food made from flour, water, and yeast. ...a loaf of bread. ...bread and butter. There is more fibre in wholemeal bread than in white bread. 2. to know what side your bread is buttered on phrase [Vs inflect] If you say that someone knows what side their bread is buttered on, you mean that they know what to do or who to please in order to stay in a good situation or to avoid a bad one. These chaps know what side their bread's buttered on. 3. uncountable noun [usually with poss] If you earn your bread doing a particular job or activity, you earn your money doing it. [informal] There's not a living soul in Colorado who doesn't depend for his bread on silver. 4. verb [usually passive] If food such as fish or meat is breaded, it is covered in tiny pieces of dry bread called breadcrumbs. It can then be fried or grilled. It is important that food be breaded just minutes before frying. [be VERB-ed] breaded adjective ...breaded fish. Idioms: your bread and butter the main way that you earn money `Who's your audience?' `We play maybe a hundred colleges a year. That is our bread and butter.' Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers know which side your bread is buttered on to understand fully how you are likely to benefit from a situation, and know what to do or who to please in order to put yourself in the best possible situation Donald was a man who knew with utter clarity which side his bread was buttered on. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers cast your bread upon the waters [literary] to do something good or take a risk, usually without expecting very much in return You should make time to offer assistance to others. It's a case of casting your bread upon the waters – who knows how the favour will be repaid. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers bread and circuses used to describe a situation in which a government tries to take attention away from real problems or issues, by providing people with things which seem to make their lives more enjoyable Metternich proceeded to neutralize political dissent through a policy of bread and circuses. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers the best thing since sliced bread or the greatest thing since sliced bread something that someone thinks is very good, original, and exciting When your programme first started I thought it was the best thing since sliced bread. But over the last three months I think you have adopted an arrogant attitude. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: bread dough We spend the next hour burning lumps of bread dough, speared on sticks, over the campfire. Times, Sunday Times Lightly flour the work surface and knead the dough with the heel of one hand as you might with bread dough. Times, Sunday Times He makes unpronounceable pastries with bread dough. Times, Sunday Times Let them snip chives, crush garlic, spin salad, feel bread dough. Times, Sunday Times Bread dough left overnight on a heating grate would rise so much it would explode. Globe and Mail bread machine Luckily for your girth, the bread machine has a distinct life cycle. Times, Sunday Times If you've got a bread machine languishing at the back of a cupboard somewhere, it's well worth giving it a second chance. The Sun I mainly use my bread machine for making pizza dough at weekends. The Sun If you are one of my fellow fanatics about baking bread - by hand, please, not in a bread machine - three steps will make the process easier on the planet. Times, Sunday Times By week three pasta makers, bread machines and food processors were being snapped up as lockdown turned people into adventurous home chefs. Times,Sunday Times bread oven The bread oven at the rectory was kept hot after the household baking so that others could make use of it. Times, Sunday Times It has an original stone bread oven, oak-beamed ceilings, a sitting room and two bedrooms on the first floor. Times, Sunday Times It has a traditional country feel, with an amazing kitchen with stone fireplace and original bread oven. Times, Sunday Times The original one comes with a bread oven and a vat for boiling water. Times, Sunday Times First they dry wood in something like a bread oven. Times, Sunday Times bread recipe It's sometimes hard to write a bread recipe because you can't convey the texture or the way the dough should feel. Times, Sunday Times Chop roughly and incorporate into a soda bread recipe, with pumpkin seeds. Times, Sunday Times Alfalfa soon sprouted on their gravesites and their relatives harvested it, incorporating it into a family bread recipe. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Like most soda bread recipes, it uses bicarbonate of soda instead of yeast, as well as buttermilk and half wholemeal, half plain flour. Times,Sunday Times Put in 'banana bread' and you will be offered a tab called recipes that has culled the top-rated banana bread recipes from the web. Times, Sunday Times chunk of bread Serve it with almost anything: potatoes, pasta, rice or polenta, bread or a chunk of bread or over bruschetta. Times, Sunday Times This bean and vegetable soup can make a good main course when you have it with a chunk of bread. Times, Sunday Times If you want to serve this with a warm chunk of bread, add 100 calories per 50g piece. The Sun Serve with a chunk of bread. The Sun I only managed to gulp mine down with a large chunk of bread. The Sun crusty bread Mixed with separately cooked peas and beans and eaten with crusty bread and butter, this recipe adapts for chicken fillet or lamb's kidneys. Times, Sunday Times (2014) Meanwhile, avoid spicy and acidic foods, crusty bread, and toothpastes containing sodium lauryl sulphate. The Sun (2017) A perfect duvet-day treat - serve with crusty bread. Times, Sunday Times (2017) Cut two slices of crusty bread into chunks for dipping into the cheese. The Sun (2015) Add the last of the parsley and serve with crusty bread and unsalted butter. Times, Sunday Times (2011) fresh bread Even small villages have pharmacies (and fresh bread shops). Times, Sunday Times (2014) Strawberries and fresh bread dominate this full-flavoured pink bubbly. Globe and Mail (2003) Pasta, fresh bread and legumes also feature highly. The Sun (2017) The menu changes weekly and fresh bread is made every day — try the smoked salmon open sandwich. Times, Sunday Times (2015) The breakfasts are legendary: fresh bread, pastries, cheese and smoked meats plus homemade jam and apple juice from the owners' orchard. Times, Sunday Times (2013) fried bread It was a big breakfast of bacon, egg and fried bread which faced me when I had finished my ablutions. Secombe, Fred GOODBYE CURATE On the menu was chips, fried eggs, fried bread and baked beans: sixteen bob. Dexter Petley WHITE LIES (2003) The first was a clever and utterly indulgent twist on onion soup (with toasted cheese on fried bread). The Sun (2014) homemade bread Others use the group to share information on must-see television programmes, good books, exercise websites, gardening tips and recipes for homemade bread. Times,Sunday Times Plump and juicy, they are ideally served in a mariniere sauce with crusty homemade bread or chunky chips. The Sun Try, though—you'll need some exercise before you sample homemade bread and other delights at the restaurant. Times, Sunday Times Our homemade bread used to go off in two to four days. Times,Sunday Times The home-grown garden herb and leaf salad and homemade bread are not to be missed. Times, Sunday Times loaf of bread I shout at the recipe, trying to copy her very first step: wringing out a sopping-wet loaf of bread (yes, you read that right). Times, Sunday Times (2010) The average home cost 2,100 while a loaf of bread was 2½ p, or sixpence in old money. The Sun (2008) Think rich and you make money, think poor and someone steals your loaf of bread. Anita Anderson SOMEBODY (2002) It's just a quart of milk and a loaf of bread. Al Ries and Laura Ries THE 22 IMMUTABLE LAWS OF BRANDING (2002) potato bread Homemade potato bread rolls, fat, oily and irresistible, to be swooped through swirls of chillied crab butter. Times,Sunday Times You could add curry powder to the potato bread, put walnuts in the seeded loaf — anything goes. Times, Sunday Times Add the potato bread and cook over a fairly low heat for 5-10 min, turning once, until browned on both sides and cooked through. Times, Sunday Times Cut the potato breads in two. The Sun sourdough bread It's touristy, but fun, with street performers, seals and plenty of places selling clam chowder — here served in hollowed-out sourdough bread. Times, Sunday Times (2012) Use multigrain or sourdough bread to keep you feeling full for longer. Times, Sunday Times (2008) stale bread For the pangrattato, tear up the stale bread, discarding the crusts, and add to a food processor. The Sun To make them, simply put stale bread into a food processor and give it a couple of blasts. Times, Sunday Times Pulse stale bread into crumbs, adding a few anchovies, garlic, lemon zest, mint and salt and pepper to the mix. Times, Sunday Times To test, drop in a cube of stale bread. Times, Sunday Times Meanwhile, place the stale bread in a food processor and blitz to fine breadcrumbs. The Sun toast bread Toast bread on both sides to make bruschetta, and serve with caponata. Times, Sunday Times Toast bread, spread with butter, cover lavishly with cold tomato and hide with slices of ham. Times, Sunday Times Toast bread, spread with soft goat or spreadable feta and pile with leek. Times, Sunday Times Toast bread on one side, then turn and spread with the tuna mixture. Times,Sunday Times Toast bread and peel the garlic. Times, Sunday Times warm bread You can watch the chefs prepare your fresh seafood through the open kitchen while dipping warm bread into smoked mackerel pâté and garlic mayonnaise. Times, Sunday Times We've learned the joy of welcoming folks in for a simple supper of soup and warm bread. Christianity Today A big bowl of vegetable and bean soup served with a warm bread roll. The Sun Designed for retailers, it mixes, kneads, bakes and sells warm bread within 90 minutes, producing 265 loaves a day. Times, Sunday Times That's the problem with fresh-baked warm bread: it tends to get eaten rather rapidly. Times,Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 面包 Japanese: パン
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