For her, books were as necessary to life as bread.

对她来说，书就像面包一样是生活的必需。

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She believed that comfort, not bread, was the staff of life.

她相信，安慰虽不等于面包，却是生活的拐杖。

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He would buy greatbrown loaves of French bread, vegetables of all sorts, meat; he would buy life.

他要买烤得焦黄的法式面包，各种蔬菜，肉，他要买生命。

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For most of his life, William Alexander didn't really care much about bread.

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Everybody needs grain; bread is the stuff of life as you have been rightly told.

每个人都需要谷物,就如你所知的,民以食为天

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Few things in life are as simple or complex as bread.

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Queues for the basics of life - bread and fuel - grow ever longer.

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"Somebody radicalized them, but it's not my brother, who just moved back to Russia, who spent his life bringing bread to their table, fixing cars, " he said.

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The immediate recipients of the harvest are local individuals, churches, and nonprofit organizations such as the Cedar Manor nursing care center and the Bread of Life Food Pantry.

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