bread-winner

基本解释

Nowadays, in many american families, both the husband and wife is bread winner.
如今，在美國許多家庭中，夫婦雙方都掙錢養家。
So I was a bread winner when I was nine. I did odds and sods to get things by any means.
這樣，我9嵗就挑起了家庭的重擔。我想方設法，乾各種襍活，養家活口。
So he was a bread winner when he was nine. He did odds and sods to get things by any means.
因此，他9嵗的時候就開始養家活口。爲了掙錢他不顧一切地乾各種各樣的零碎活兒。
Or if you are not the bread winner, then you are enslaved to the one who pays the bills in ones' dance of life.
如果你不是一個維生的成功者，隨後在你生活之舞中，你被付帳單的人所奴役。
Carolyn: Oh, oh, oh, oh, and I want to thank you for putting me under the added pressure of being the Blackmailing 8)sole bread winner now.
凱洛琳：噢，哦，哦，哦，我還要感謝你讓我的負擔更重了，讓我成爲唯一的麪包供應者。

The breadwinner in a family is the person in it who earns the money that the family needs for essential things.