| 释义 |
rice bowlnoun1An area in which abundant quantities of rice are grown.‘A major reconstruction effort will be needed to get the area back to being the rice bowl of the state, and this has to start now,’ added Kapoor....- West Java Governor Danny Setiawan said during a visit to Cirebon on Thursday that his administration would go ahead with the project because it was necessary for West Java to remain a rice bowl in Java.
- At the front line in the battle to contain the lake, large squads of farmers defied the sweltering heat of a summer's day in the Chinese rice bowl to toss sandbags, rocks and soil into the embryonic breaches.
2 [in singular] One’s livelihood (used especially with reference to Asia): vested interests will fight to the death to protect their rice bowl...- The CLA and labor representatives have long believed that foreign labor competes for local labor's rice bowl and that reducing the number of foreign laborers will improve the unemployment situation.
- I do not believe it is the function of any reviewer to break anyone's rice bowl.
- As soon as you start importing, you are goring somebody's ox, breaking somebody's rice bowl.
|