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单词 bread and water
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bread and water

A frugal diet that is eaten in poverty, chosen in abstinence, or given as a punishment: he could be put on bread and water for forty-eight hours...
  • What these people need is a diet of bread and water.
  • This included locking them up for a week on a diet of bread and water.
  • The 32 measures included sleep and sensory deprivation, the use of military dogs to terrify prisoners, temperature extremes and diets of bread and water.
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