meal ticket
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˈmɪəl ˌtɪk.ɪt]
- 美式音标 [ˈmɪəl ˌtɪk.ɪt]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- n. （美）飯票；餐券；賴以爲生的工作；提供生活來源的人
英汉例句
- He gave me a meal ticket this noon.
今天中午他給了我一張餐券。 - Like most people in his village, growing tobacco provides the family’s meal ticket.
同村裡大多數 人一樣，李彥博的家裡也是靠種菸草維生。 - We were their meal ticket, and people offered a lot of money to Amerasians willing to claim them as mothers and grandparents and siblings.
我們就是他們的飯票，人們出很多錢，希望美亞混血兒能認他們爲母親或祖父母或兄弟姐妹。 - American Locker apparently has no patent protection for its meal ticket -- the virtually indestructible plastic postal cluster boxes for housing developments and apartments.
FORBES: Indestructible - And the Orlando Magic, already offering the seventh-lowest ticket prices in the league, are trying to appeal to fans appetites (and wallets) by serving up an all-you-can-eat meal plan for ticket holders.
FORBES: Magazine Article - He also made the political blunder, in the special election, of giving away coupons for a free chicken meal to voters who presented their voting-ticket stubs.
ECONOMIST: California politics
雙語例句
權威例句
词组短语
- Meal -ticket Theory 同心圓與飯票理論
- Meal ticket management 飯票琯理
- Monkey Meal Ticket 猴島餐券
- The Meal Ticket 有一張餐券
- a meal ticket 贍養者
短語
英英字典
- (FOOD) a type of ticket that you can exchange for a meal
- (MONEY) someone or something that you use as a way of getting regular amounts of money
- If you say that something or someone is a meal ticket, you mean that they provide a person with money or a lifestyle which they would not otherwise have.
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专业释义
- 飯票
- 餐券