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单词 iron rice bowl
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iron rice bowl
iron rice bowl n. figurative (in Chinese contexts) a secure livelihood or source of income provided by the State; the system guaranteeing lifetime employment and other entitlements to state workers; cf. rice bowl n. 1b.Chiefly with reference to the Maoist era. [After Chinese tiě fànwǎn (1925 or earlier; < tiě iron + fànwǎn rice bowl, means of living: see rice bowl n.), itself after jīn fànwǎn highly-paid work, lit. ‘golden rice bowl’ (1903 or earlier).]
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1935 Chinese Admin. Jan. 54 Even under the Peking regime officials with from ten to twenty years' service were not infrequently found. Officials with substantive posts were said to have ‘an iron rice-bowl’.
1962 E. Snow Other Side of River vi. lxxix. 604 All children now enjoy a fairly equal opportunity to make the most of what is offered: health care, education, recreation—and the ‘iron rice bowl’.
1979 Mod. China 5 385 A factory worker in Taiwan is subject to layoffs and firing; a government clerk at even the lowest level has ‘an iron rice bowl’.
2012 Internat. Herald Tribune (Nexis) 29 Sept. 6 The transition to a more private economy in the 1990s abruptly overturned the iron rice bowl.
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