N-SING Someone who is on the breadline is very poor indeed. 贫困线 [usu 'on the' N]
We lived on the breadline to get our son through college.
供儿子上大学期间我们的生活非常拮据。
They're not exactly on the breadline.
他们其实并非生活在贫困线上。
This photo of a sad man in a bread line is a symbol of this difficult period in United States history.
这张照片里，一个排队领救济的男人就代表了美国那段历史的艰难时期。
He says the bakery employees let some people inside to get bread quickly while he and the rest are waiting in line outside in the sun for hours.
萨米尔抱怨说，面包店的工作人员让一些人插队买到面包，而他和其他顾客却要在炎热的太阳下苦等几个小时。
Then everyone left in your family line will come and bow down before him for a piece of silver and a crust of bread and plead, "Appoint me to some priestly office so I can have food to eat."
你家所剩下的人都必来叩拜他，求块银子，求个饼，说：求你赐我祭司的职分，好叫我得点饼吃。
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