Word · Frequency #5145
tommy
配给面包
核心释义
Bread, especially a penny roll; the daily food allowance carried by workmen.
- 1.
阴茎。
penis
- 2.
一种T形扳手。
A tommy bar.
实物工资制；阴茎。；一种T形扳手。；实物工资制；[经] 实物工资制
用法In use
Each worker received a tommy and a cup of tea for breakfast.
用法提示：Tommy在此指配给面包，作为工人早餐的一部分。
In the old days, miners often carried a tommy in their lunch pails.
用法提示：Tommy作为可数名词，指单个的面包。
The foreman distributed the tommies to the laborers before the shift started.
用法提示：使用复数形式tommies，表示多个配给面包。
earn tommy
In the 19th century, many workers earned tommy instead of money.
在19世纪，许多工人以实物工资代替货币工资。
be paid in tommy
相关词与表达Connections
搭配Collocations
- tommy system
- 实物工资制
- Many workers were forced to accept wages in the tommy system, receiving goods instead of cash.许多工人被迫接受实物工资制，领取货物而非现金。
- tommy shop
- 实物工资商店
- The company owned a tommy shop where employees had to buy overpriced goods.公司经营一家实物工资商店，员工不得不购买高价商品。
- tommy bread
- 配给面包
- He ate a piece of tommy bread for breakfast.他早餐吃了一块配给面包。
近义词Synonyms
- bread
- 面包 · Tommy 特指历史工人所带的每日口粮面包，而 bread 是通用词，在特定上下文可替换但语义范围更广。
学习提示Learner notes
记忆技巧Memory Tip
想象一个工人Tommy每天领到的实物工资就是一块面包，记‘Tommy’即‘实物工资制’。
语境与语域Context & Register
通常指工人随身携带的配给面包，属于旧式用法；实体工资制义项多用于历史或经济学语境。现代英语中罕见。
语法说明Grammar Note
旧时英国用法，可指一块面包或实物工资制。
发音与拼写Pronunciation & Spelling
Words with identical stressed vowel and following sounds (/ɒmi/): mommy only. Words like dummy, tummy, gummy share the spelling pattern -ummy but have a different vowel (/ʌ/). Economy and anatomy end in -omy but differ in stress and syllable count, so they do not rhyme with tommy.
一起学习词形Learn the forms together
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