饭票

Now why would I kill my meal ticket, detective?

那么我为什么要杀了我的饭票，探员先生？

If on the other hand, your partner has been behaving badly, well, then, you will have to take hold of the checkbook and let the chips fall where they may.

从另一方面来说，如果你伴侣确实表现得很糟糕，好吧，那你就撕碎支票本走人吧，不当她的饭票了。

Do not put your life in their hands financially long-term, get a job and make sure that at any given moment you can provide for yourself and possibly for a child.

不要把别人当做自己的长期饭票，找一份工作，确保任何时候自己都能养活自己，甚至可能的话，养活一个孩子。

Do I need to buy meal tickets first?

我需要先买饭票吗？

or c) something, as an object or ability possessed3 by a person, that is necessary to that person's livelihood, for example, the radio announcer's voice was his meal ticket.

或指某人赖以生存的一个物品或一项技能，比如，电台播音员的声音就是他的饭票。

Meal ticket may refer to a) a ticket that entitles the bearer to meals in a specified1 restaurant, especially when meals purchased in this manner are offered at reduced rates;

Meal ticket（饭票）可指在指定餐馆就餐的餐票，以此种方式就餐通常可以享受折扣；

Critical of the self-indulgence of the super-rich, Buffett thinks of inheritances as "privately funded food stamps" that keep children of the rich from leading normal, independent lives.

他对“超级富人”自我放纵的生活方式非常反感，他把遗产看作是“私人资助的饭票”，这让有钱人家的孩子们无法过上正常而独立的生活。

Dear mother, I love u so much!

最后妈妈你还是我的长期饭票！

Lamar: how happy she is! She's guaranteed with three meals. I wish I were a woman to marry myself off!

拉默尔：她多幸福啊！拥有长期饭票。我真希望能做个女人把自己嫁掉！

She ia a selfish woman who looks upon her husband only as a meal ticket.

她是个自私的女人，她把她丈夫当作是饭票。

You mean she needs a meal ticket?

你意思是她需要个长期饭票吧？

Miss white is going to quit and get married? She got a job guaranteed with three meals and an afternoon nap, didn't she? Boy, women are lucky!

怀特小姐要辞职结婚呀？她获得附加午睡的长期饭票。乖乖，女人真好命。

Kamen. "Modern Marriage: From Meal Ticket to Best Friend." in Skolnick and Skolnick, pp.152-160.

现代婚姻：从长期饭票到挚友〉，收录于《变革中的家庭》152～160页。

b) someone upon whom one is dependent for one's income or livelihood2, for example, selfish children who look upon their father only as a meal ticket;

或者指某人收入或生活的主要来源，如，自私的孩子们只是把自己的父亲当成了饭票；