meat and drink

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. That on which somebody survives, or which makes their existence meaningful; means of subsistence. uncountable
    — The work he had done in instructing the woman; the work he had to do among the Samaritans; the prospect he now had of doing good to many, this was meat and drink to him; it was the greatest pleasure and satisfaction imaginable.

词源

From meat in the archaic sense of food.
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