provide

来源: newton123 于 2011-10-23 17:58:57 [档案] [博客] [旧帖] [给我悄悄话] 阅读数 : (350 bytes)

回答: 一个小问题。由 cha-cha 于 2011-10-23 15:53:14

Correct. provide for their households--provide all necessary product for sustenance. You may not have to buy clothing every week, but you have to have food everyday. The Chinese sentence, is not word-to-word translation, but it delievers the essential meaning. We can alwayse have a variety of expression for the same meaning.