| 单词 | breadline |
| 例句 | I wandered the streets, watching the German soldiers and their tanks, the breadlines that stretched around the block. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z I pass legs sticking out of doorways, and signs advertising breadlines. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I pass a breadline—a long row of shabby dispirited people leading to the door of a mission. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z A separate territory on which we can lift ourselves out of these white man’s slums for us, and his breadlines for us. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z We are so lucky if you are housed and fed and someplace where you are not on a breadline. Susan Sarandon on life, career and politics: "It is getting pretty biblical out there" 2021-08-01T04:00:00Z The costumes are cut to the fashion of the times, and while that authenticity helps evoke the era of breadlines and speakeasies, it doesn’t do Ms. Winslet any favors. | 'Mildred Pierce': Battling the Depression for an Ungrateful Daughter 2011-03-24T11:00:00Z But Henson, who is 48, has the informality and downhome directness that is to be expected from someone raised on the breadline in Washington DC. Taraji P Henson: 'Hollywood didn't grasp my talent' 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z There is even — heaven help us — a breadline tableau, in silhouette, somewhere along the way. | 'Bonnie & Clyde': ?Bonnie & Clyde,? With Laura Osnes and Jeremy Jordan - Review 2011-12-02T03:37:52Z The breadline becomes a bread and olives line. Do you hate football and want to help the poor? Take up gambling 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z For Bennett, that’s all a way to paint a fuller picture of life in breadline Britain. 'The show needed to come back': how Drake rescued the druglords of Top Boy 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z It's the edgy allure of the sensitive street thug venting their breadline anguish on iPads procured by bike ambush. King Krule – review 2013-04-01T16:51:32Z A working-class comedy that doesn't shy away from the struggles of having no money, hating your family and barely making the breadline, it's HBO's answer to Roseanne. Lucky Louie: box set review 2013-07-04T14:00:01Z "If there is compensation, it should be equally balanced between those who need it - those on the breadline and in rural parts of the country." Storm power cuts: Maximum compensation nearly triples to £2,000 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z "It is simply unacceptable that workers have been forced onto the breadline due to years of real terms pay cuts." Workers to strike at Cardiff, Wrexham and Gwynedd councils 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z Jonathan Bean, from Fuel Poverty Action, said unexpected deductions from people on the breadline risked sending them into "a cash flow crisis". Benefits taken away to pay for utilities without consent 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z Most clubs in Scotland live on the breadline, most supporters travel to watch their team more in hope than expectation of goals and victories. Essential guide to new Scottish Premiership season 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z The agreement helped resolve supply shortages that shocked the market during the onset of the war, causing large breadlines and rationing. Mideast countries that are already struggling fear price hikes after Russia exits grain deal 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z The rising rates are not just affecting people on the breadline or on social welfare, he added. As UK housing costs soar, anxiety grips homeowners and renters: ‘I’m in meltdown’ 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z Living on the breadline "is worse now than it has ever been" according to Cherrie Bija, chief executive of Faith in Families. Cost of living: Low pay forces family to use water with cereal 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z In the 1930s millions of able-bodied Americans were thrown out of work and onto breadlines through no fault of their own. False ‘Facts’ about Science and Social Security Share Origins 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z Di still has a couple of baby bank referrals for people who are on the breadline tonight. Facing never-ending queues on the debt frontline 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z There were literal breadlines as long streams of cars lined up for donated food. Opinion | Extending the student loan moratorium (again) is a terrible idea 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z In cities, as industry slowed, then sometimes stopped altogether, workers lost jobs and joined breadlines, or sought out other charitable efforts. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z There are also criticisms that her tax cut plans will benefit the wealthy more than those on the breadline. Tory leadership: Cost of living crisis focus for contenders for PM job 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z Rampant power cuts, breadlines and inflation plague households across the country’s mosaic of 18 religious sects following decades of nefarious economic mismanagement and corruption from Lebanon’s ruling parties. Clergy, bags of cash set off new sectarian brawl in Lebanon 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z It is not only people on the breadline who come in for benefits checks and debt advice, as the cost of living soars. Cost of living: Are you missing out on unclaimed universal credit? 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z He already has to pay for his care £103 a week, so he is already well past the breadline, so he is in the red now and it's life-threatening. Cost of living: Energy price hikes introduced in Northern Ireland 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z In larger cities, breadlines and soup lines became a common sight. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z It was initially reported that Jimmy was gunned down while waiting in a breadline, but Katya said the family had received new details through their senators and from Jimmy’s friends in Ukraine Saturday. American lost in Ukraine flew into war to help sick partner 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z Jimmy Hill was in Ukraine at the time to help his partner get critical health care procedures when he was reportedly killed in a breadline. Sister of US citizen killed in Ukraine recounts Jimmy Hill's final days 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z The economy has long stood on shaky foundations, dependent on aid that has now disappeared and with enormous gaps between the Kabul elite and millions living just above the breadline. From teacher to shoe shiner: Afghan economic crisis spares few 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z Furious and achingly personal, it's full of fist fights, embryonic love, disdain for authority and life on the breadline, all set to a pseudo-Springsteen production that thrums with saxophone solos, muscular guitars and dramatic drums. Sam Fender says he considered dealing drugs, before music offered a way out 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z At one count in 1932, there were as many as eighty-two breadlines in New York City. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The first minister said that for the UK government to even consider this move showed a “lack of basic understanding” of life for those on the breadline. Sturgeon: PM taking food out of children’s mouths 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z In its report, the committee said that removing the top-up in April would force hundreds of thousands of families below the breadline and drag those already in poverty "down into destitution". Universal Credit: Extend £20 benefit top-up for a year, say MPs 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z Among the most memorable are the Depression-era photos of men standing in breadlines, huddled in long coats and fedoras, their eyes large with fear. Millions of hungry Americans turn to food banks for 1st time 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z Some musicians, often with dependents and extended families, live on the breadline. Tanzania elections: Why pop stars are hailing President Magufuli 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z This was soon after the Great Depression, when many American families were forced to live in shantytowns and to wait through breadlines just for basic sustenance. Editorial Roundup: Tennessee 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z She never expected herself to be on the breadline. 'There is help out there if you ask for it' 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z “We’ll be back tomorrow to bring you the latest and greatest from our studio to your breadline,” Kelly said to wrap up the parody newscast. CNN-like ‘Socialist News Network’ spoof warms up CPAC crowd: ‘From our studio to your breadline’ 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z Host Jesse Kelly promised to be back to bring more news “from our studio to your breadline”. 'America v socialism': conservatives rage against the left and plot new red scare 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z They spent years on the breadline before Warner, the Superman filmmaker and then comic’s owner, agreed in the 1970s to give them a pension. 'Take that, Mr Hitler': the Jewish roots of superheroes 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z It’s a Robin Hood tale: as the breadline recedes into the distance, deception comes to look like a legitimate survival tactic. Moral of the story: 2019's boldest culture asked what it means to be good 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z "We grew up on the breadline, so it's not as if music was seen as a realistic option," she said. Grammy nominee's mum 'banned her from music' 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z According to Sky News, poverty in Liverpool is higher than the U.K. average, with 29 percent of children in the city living below the breadline once housing costs are taken into consideration. UK girl, 7, writes heartbreaking letter to Santa, prompts pledges of donations after going viral 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z "Being on the universal credit, you are living on the breadline, so any sort of help is appreciated," he says. 'I hung around outside the food bank, embarrassed to go in' 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z "Parents are genuinely on the breadline," he says. Primary schools give free food to hungry families 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z Our daily bread is our daily life; it is economics – breadwinner, breadbaskets, breadlines; it is politics – upper crust, bread and circuses, grist for the mill. Flour power: meet the bread heads baking a better loaf 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Americans, we are told, still fear the S-word and imagine breadlines and gulags when it’s invoked. Sanders brilliantly fuses old-school socialism with American liberalism | Bhaskar Sunkara 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, he has continued to target his operations at those on the breadline. The preachers getting rich from poor Americans 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z In 1985, while mayor of Burlington, Vt., Sanders described breadlines in Nicaragua as "a good thing." RNC assails Bernie Sanders over report he called for nationalization of major US industries in 1970s 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z The 54-year-old from Berkshire said his family was "living below the breadline" for more than a year after their housing benefit was stopped in 2015. Legal aid network 'decimated' by cuts 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z The Great Recession that accompanied the financial crisis didn’t bring back breadlines or industrial strikes. Ten Years After the Crash 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z The director of the year prize went to Sean Baker for The Florida Project, his funny and compassionate look at people living a breadline existence in America's Sunshine State. Kate Winslet regrets 'poor decisions' 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z The "deadline to the breadline" varied across the UK, the research found, with employees in Northern Ireland believing their savings would last for 36 days on average - the longest time period in the survey. Savings would last about a month on average, report says - BBC News 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z And while she is by no means downbeat or truly on the breadline, she is short for cash. Pipe dreams: life on the road in pursuit of surfing glory 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z She says she has always been breadline poor; the idea that she got rich by pretending to be black looks absurd. Rachel Dolezal: ‘I’m not going to stoop and apologise and grovel’ 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z It laments a "national shame", and its research suggests about 13% of the population - or three million people - are living below the breadline. Australia's child poverty 'national shame' - BBC News 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z TV reports before Rio showed how many French sportsmen and -women were living close to the breadline. Rio 2016 Olympics: France agonises over Team GB glory - BBC News 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z She would not recommend Radiohead go back to the breadline if they are ever searching for a creative benefit. Radiohead's corporate empire: inside the band's dollars and cents 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z The economies of these counties rested entirely on lumber, mining, and ranching and when commodity prices fell in the early-1930s, ranchers started losing their land to banks and loggers and miners found themselves in breadlines. This Isn’t The First Time Armed Ranchers Have Seized Government Land in Oregon 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z Snipers targeted breadlines, and bakeries and markets in rebel-held territory were hit with bombs from above. The ISIS Oil Trade, from the Ground Up 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z A lot are still very much on the breadline, the poorer section in society. Irish Budget: Counting the cost of economic recovery - BBC News 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z Either way, most seem to be able to agree that, even if musicians are not on the breadline yet, the way music is currently distributed and paid for is complex and inefficient. Imogen Heap: saviour of the music industry? 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z Barnardo's chief executive Javed Khan said: "This report puts paid to the myth that work alone provides a route off the breadline, discrediting the government's Budget plans to cut families' lifeline tax credits." Poor children: more are in working families, study says - BBC News 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Mrs O'Harrow said living so close to the breadline creates tension - the couple often argue about money: "We get angry with each other. I've had his bags packed at the door." The working people struggling to eat 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z Big economies like Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Colombia raised their base wages from 2002 to 2011 to between two and three times the breadline. Stingy by any measure 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Benefits Street, which followed the lives of people living on a Birmingham street, was a ratings hit but was criticised for its portrayal of people living on the breadline. 'Immigration Street' area confirmed 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Figures suggest that 80,000 children from working families are living below the breadline. New strategy to tackle child poverty 2014-03-10T06:36:23Z The coaches were really impressed and wanted me to come back next year, but I couldn't commit to another year of living essentially on the breadline when I might not be good enough again. Skeleton to Blue Peter - and back again 2014-02-02T06:32:29Z Lyudmila, a housewife, said that "before joining any international organisations, Ukraine should first develop our own economy. Look at our poor pensioners surviving on the breadline. I am against joining the EU". Ukraine's 'other half' resents Kiev protests 2013-12-03T14:23:50Z The theft of a wallet might be an irritation to someone wealthy, but could be devastating to a family on the breadline. Viewpoints: How should the police best use limited resources? 2013-09-06T05:24:12Z One of the things Sinkele finds most astonishing is that multinational companies are getting tax-breaks for selling beer to people on the breadline. Africa Has a Drinking Problem 2013-08-10T04:05:23Z “My father used to say things to me all the time like, ‘Always remember, one day the headline, next day the breadline,’ ” Mancini said. Ray ‘Boom Boom’ Mancini continues to move forward 2013-07-25T18:47:46Z She is an energetic anti-poverty campaigner, infuriated by the media's vicious attacks on "benefit scroungers" and the inability of politicians and policymakers to comprehend the slender margins of breadline life. Jack Monroe: the face of modern poverty 2013-07-23T14:30:00Z Maybe they have got a lot of money, but where you have to be careful is if someone is living on the breadline and putting £100 a week into one of these games. Ex-Zynga studio boss Matthew Wiggins on where social games went wrong 2013-07-18T13:54:00Z Most older people are neither wealthy baby-boomers nor pensioners on the breadline, the report says Better-off older people should pay tax at the same rate as younger people on similar incomes, a think tank argues. Pensioners 'should pay more tax' 2013-04-22T00:49:35Z To have enough money, not to be on the breadline. Wayne Hemingway: My family values 2013-04-08T10:42:00Z There is also likely to be much discussion on whether a millionaire getting the same state pension as somebody on the breadline is fair or not, although this income would be taxed. State pension: The overhaul and you 2013-01-14T01:25:21Z Living on the breadline and with a husband who is mentally ill, the mother works in fields with her daughters to feed her family. Delhi rape accused lived on margins of India's boom 2013-01-12T08:14:27Z This is for the soup kitchen the party runs, for those on the breadline. Amid scars of past conflict Spanish far right grows 2012-12-18T16:07:35Z What emerged were six short films, each a miniature portrait of life lived on the breadline, made through the Guardian, who took my idea to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation for funding. Breadline Britain: giving voice to the seldom heard 2012-11-18T16:00:03Z When the frizzy-haired orphan first made her appearance, the breadlines and Hoovervilles of the Great Depression were safely bathed in nostalgia. How Annie Changed the World 2012-11-13T06:15:00Z Then, when I was a child in Ireland the country was on the breadline. Jim Mortram's Small Town Inertia 2012-09-27T05:29:53Z And with the UK economy in double-dip recession, the word breadline is starting to mean something literal. The growing demand for food banks 2012-09-04T08:17:07Z A foundation for a stable family life and secure home instantly disappears, replaced with a future filled with fears over health insurance, missed mortgage payments and the potential for a slip below the breadline. 'I'm sick to my stomach': anger builds in Illinois at Bain's latest outsourcing plan 2012-08-10T15:15:00Z But if, instead of thinking about the breadline, we consider what level of income is needed for an acceptable standard of living, the debate changes. Do you live above the bread, butter and jam line? 2012-07-10T01:36:40Z There are hundreds across Britain, with many more opening to cope with demand for free food parcels from families and individuals living on the breadline. Foodbanks across the UK: help us create a directory 2012-06-25T14:00:55Z As shown in our special reports this week, the long slump is pushing many Britons below the breadline. Vince Cable on pay: while fat cats purr 2012-06-20T22:55:27Z The Guardian, in partnership with the Resolution Foundation, will be following the fortunes of three "cliff-edge" families over the next 12 months and report on how they cope with life hovering just above the breadline. 'Cliff-edge' households teetering on the brink of poverty 2012-06-18T14:15:02Z The Great Depression, 1930: unemployed Americans queuing at a breadline in Los Angeles. Remember the Great Depression? No, it doesn't seem that anyone does 2012-06-16T23:05:54Z There will be many people reading this now who instinctively believe that you cannot have a breadline if everyone can afford bread. Poverty, noun - what's the definition? 2012-06-14T10:27:39Z Bluntly, so many clubs are too close to the breadline to be in a position to gamble but the political backlash for such a stance should not be undermined. Rangers and Scottish football must move on from unseemly mess 2012-06-12T16:27:04Z Legion's phrase about the benches in Union Park and the breadline stuck in his mind. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z There was another epochal effect of the New Deal, which was the rescue of a generation from the despair of the "Hoovervilles" -- breadlines and sharecropper hovels. The fight that just won't die 2011-04-10T15:01:00Z We understand well enough that it is a relative term, that it is not bomb-disposal or living below the breadline. Shine a light on Tendulkar's world 2011-04-01T14:56:44Z There are already more mobile phone subscribers in Africa than in Canada and the US combined, proving that even those on the breadline have spending power. It's time the world listened to new stories out of Africa 2011-02-20T00:05:58Z February is seldom a month to bring many people much cheer but this year for Championship clubs on the breadline, it will be tougher than ever. Chelsea's ?50m deal for Fernando Torres worries Uefa 2011-02-01T00:05:03Z For many of the people we deal with who are living on the breadline, this is simply not good enough. Working for government call centres makes you sick 2011-01-21T11:12:14Z That client is Russia, which many outsiders still associate with spies, the gulag, gangsters, breadlines and permafrost, not to mention retrograde politics. Advertising: Selling the World on Russia (Leaving Out the Spies) 2010-12-28T23:50:05Z Their decision means people on the breadline will now get the help they need more easily and that's of course what matters to us in the foodbank network. Food voucher plan for job centres 2010-12-18T02:48:23Z This is bad news for the millions who live on the breadline in developing countries, as well as for hard-working families struggling to get by here in the UK. Investment bankers blamed for driving up the price of turkeys 2010-12-16T17:41:15Z Events like this job fair are becoming the grim iconic gatherings of our time, the breadlines for the Obama years. Obama Is in the Jaws of Political Death: Can He Survive? 2010-10-11T08:30:00Z He went on to promote and play music, sell craftwork, occasionally live on the breadline and work as a movie extra. Johnny Edgecomb, British Scandal Figure, Dies at 77 2010-10-09T18:10:00Z We waited in breadlines, carrying impossibly large stacks of banknotes, which had become a requirement for even the tiniest transaction. Daniel Alarcón: “Second Lives.” 2010-08-09T04:00:00Z "Had policymakers failed to arrest the crisis, as they failed during the Depression, the calls for reform today would be deafening: there's nothing like ubiquitous breadlines and 25% unemployment to focus the minds of legislators." In a financial crisis, what counts is what works 2010-05-30T23:04:00Z The number of children living below the official definition of the breadline might have fallen by 100,000 in 2008-09, but over the previous three years it actually rose, by twice as much. Labour's child poverty record may be flawed, but the real damage was done by the Tories 2010-05-23T23:04:00Z It has been built in three years, by a great army of migrant labourers on breadline wages, who are unlikely to get so much as a nod of acknowledgement at the lavish opening ceremony. Meydan and its millions set to banish gloom with $10m Dubai World Cup 2010-03-27T00:37:00Z The urban poor keep out of the breadline by money. Rural Problems of Today “Well, well!” says I. “So you didn’t hit the breadline, after all!” Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe The breadlines at the parks furnished striking instances of the absolute patience and fortitude that has marked the behavior of the people throughout their trying experience. Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror He could remember his dad talking about the breadlines and the free-soup kitchens. Damned If You Don't I want to see the breadline, and the panhandlers, and the bums in Union Square. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man For two or three days he had been taking up his position among the beggars of the breadline, when once he caught sight of Roberto entering the barracks. The Quest It seemed brutal to be wading into the bill of fare with poor old Bicky headed for the breadline. My Man Jeeves |
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