| 单词 |
white bread |
| 释义 |
white bread
[Cf. MHG. wîȥbrot, G. weissbrot, LG. witbrôd, Du. wittebrood.]
Bread of a light colour, made from fine wheaten flour, as distinguished from brown bread.
13..in Engl. Gilds (1870) 354 Euerych bakere of þe town..sholde make whitbred. c1450Customs of Malton in Engl. Misc. (Surtees) 62 No bakar yt bakys qwhytte brede schall bake brown brede..nor he yt bakys brown brede schall bake no qwhyte brede. 1523–34Fitzherb. Husb. §34 Polerde wheate..is greatter corne, and wyll make whyte breed. 1598Epulario D j b, Putting vnto it crums of Whitebread. 1605Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iii. Law 836 Thou, that from Heav'n thy daily White-bread hast. 1794Stedman Surinam (1813) II. xxv. 248 The white bread, fruit, and Spanish wines..I received as a present.
▸ colloq. (orig. and chiefly N. Amer.). Freq. depreciative. ‹white-bread adj. A (middle-class) white person; a person regarded as representative of the white middle-class (esp. with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes); entertainment or culture that is perceived as bland, unadventurous, or representing or reinforcing white middle-class values.
1981N.Y. Times 1 Feb. 46/2 Vincent..is white bread in a three-piece suit. 1984D. Mamet Glengarry Glen Ross ii. 58 You're scum, you're fucking white bread. 1991A. D. Foster Cat-a-lyst i. 4 This dude was born a slave, right? So he gets freed,..joins the Union Army where he meets this white bread. 1996Rolling Stone 18 Apr. 78/2 Soul Train finally gave his family a '70s TV alternative to the white bread of the Partridges. 1997Chicago Tribune 14 Dec. iv. 12/4 This..grand finale..[is] strictly white bread; but it's white bread of a very wholesome and expensive kind. |
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