All his possessions were stripped away and plundered, and his family lacked even their daily bread.
He earned, indeed, his daily bread, but he had neither linen, clothes, nor shoes.
His mother worked hard for their daily bread.
They had been crushed by a frightful accident, while working for his daily bread, in the quarries of marble near the palace on the hill.
With daily toil for daily bread, with sordid pains and pleasures?
(your)(daily) bread
themoneythat you need so that you canpayforfood,clothes, and otherordinaryneeds
维持生计所需的钱
Heearnshisdailybread as atouristguide.他靠做导游谋生。
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Needs-meeting is thedailybreadof moral practice, as it were, and it contrasts with the haute cuisine puzzles that dominate philosophical discussion.
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Such primitive errors are thedailybreadof editors entrusted with translations, and pretty basic stuff that can be easily corrected.
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I had to givedailybreadto my wife aa and children.
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Thedailybreadmaking is a veritable family enterprise.
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He probably would not have expected to earn much more than hisdailybreadand yearly suit of clothes from his position as workhouse master.
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And the groups who have representatives therein secure their 'dailybreadand butter ' from government through them.
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Its members have to do their normal work to earn theirdailybread, as it were, and then go on duty at nights and weekends.
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They leave purely and simply because they cannot earn theirdailybreadat home, and so they have to go to where the work is.
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She cannot discipline the children as well as earn herdailybread.
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Many of the inhabitants are car owners and many workers earn theirdailybreadby manufacturing cars.
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They are people who have to travel, perforce, every day, morning and night, in search of theirdailybread.
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Belief, if it is to mean anything, must be expressed not only in terms of a creed, but in terms ofdailybread.
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In short, the household budgets of this country have to provide £48 million for this current year to buy theirdailybread.
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But it is clear that ourdailybreadhas a meaning well beyond itself.
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But these are people who earn theirdailybreadby their labour.
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