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Bacon Home ˈbeɪkən Bring Meat Back Sides Phrase

"Bacon" is salted or smoked meat from a pig, and the idiom "bring home the bacon" means to earn a living or achieve success. "Save your bacon" means to rescue someone from a difficult situation.

英语

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/be͟ɪkən/
1
[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]咸猪肉;熏猪肉 Bacon is salted or smoked meat which comes from the back or sides of a pig.
  • ...bacon and eggs.

    熏肉煎蛋

  • ...smoked streaky bacon.

    烟熏五花肉

2
[PHRASE 短语]成功;达到目的 If you bring home the bacon ,you achieve what you needed to achieve.
  [V inflects]
  [INFORMAL 非正式]
  • Voters are interested in the representative's ability to bring home the bacon...

    选民感兴趣的是代表能否兑现承诺。

  • I will be most upset if this book does not bring home the bacon.

    我就不信这本书不畅销。

3
[PHRASE 短语]养家糊口;赚钱养家 The person in a family who brings home the bacon provides the family with the money they need to live.
  [V inflects]
  [INFORMAL 非正式]
  • Who brings up the baby and who brings home the bacon?

    是谁抚养孩子的,是谁赚钱养家的?

4
[PHRASE 短语]解救…于危难(或困境) If someone or something saves your bacon, they get you out of a dangerous or difficult situation.
  [V inflects]
  [BRIT 英]
  [INFORMAL 非正式]
  • Your mother once saved my bacon. She lent me money when I needed it.

    你母亲帮过我一次大忙,在我需要的时候借过钱给我。


Oxford bacon / ˈbeɪkən ; NAmE ˈbeɪkən / noun [uncountable ] meat from the back or sides of a pig that has been cured(= preserved using salt or smoke), usually served in thin slices 咸猪肉;熏猪肉 a rasher of bacon 一片咸猪肉 bacon and eggs 咸肉和鸡蛋 smoked/unsmoked bacon 熏制╱未熏制的猪肉 compare
gammon
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ham
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pork
IDIOMsee
home
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save
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bacon bacons
bacon / ˈbeɪkən ; NAmE ˈbeɪkən /
LDC
baconba‧con /ˈbeɪkən/ ●●○ S3 noun [uncountable]
Word Origin
Examples
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Phrases
1salted or smoked meat from the back or sides of a pig, often served in narrow thin pieces:  bacon and eggsrasher of bacon British English (=piece of bacon)2bring home the bacon informal to provide enough money to support your family save somebody’s bacon
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WDF

bacon

[ˈbeɪkən]

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培根(48%),熏肉(31%),咸肉(21%)
n.咸肉;腌肉;熏猪肉

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