Word · Frequency #5145
tommies
配给面包
tommies is the plural of tommy.
Bread, especially a penny roll; the daily food allowance carried by workmen.
- 1.
penis
阴茎。
- 2.
A tommy bar.
一种T形扳手。
实物工资制；阴茎。；一种T形扳手。；实物工资制；[经] 实物工资制
In use
Each worker received a tommy and a cup of tea for breakfast.
In the old days, miners often carried a tommy in their lunch pails.
The foreman distributed the tommies to the laborers before the shift started.
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
The miners were paid in tommy, which was often overpriced.
矿工们以实物工资支付，这种工资经常被高估。
Connections
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。
Learner notes
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’。
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。
Grammar Note
旧时英国用法，可指一块面包或实物工资制。
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.
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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