bread S2 W3 / bred / 名词 [不可数名词]

1 a type of food made from flour and water that is mixed together and then baked :

Would you like some bread with your soup?

a loaf of brown bread

a piece of bread and butter

2 your/sb’s bread and butter informal the work that provides you with most of the money that you need in order to live :

Writing is my bread and butter.

3 know which side your bread is buttered on informal to know which people to be nice to in order to get advantages for yourself

4 old-fashioned informal money

COLLOCATIONS

形容词

fresh Eat the bread while it’s nice and fresh.

stale (= hard and no longer fresh ) This bread’s stale – shall I throw it away?

crusty (= having a hard crust that is nice to eat ) Serve the soup with crusty bread.

mouldy British English , moldy American English (= covered with a green substance that grows on old food ) All there was in the house was a loaf of mouldy old bread.

white/brown bread Would you like white bread or brown bread?

wholewheat bread ( also wholemeal bread British English ) (= bread made with flour that contains all of the grain ) Wholemeal bread is good for you.

home-made/home-baked bread I love home-made bread.

短语

a slice/piece of bread Can I have another slice of bread?

a loaf of bread He’s gone to buy a loaf of bread.

a chunk of bread (= a piece that you pull off a loaf instead of cutting it ) He tore off a chunk of bread and dipped it in the sauce.

动词

make/bake bread We usually make our own bread.

cut/slice bread Could you cut some bread?