live off
英 [lɪv ɒf]
美 [lɪv ɔːf]
依赖(某人)生活; 靠(某一数目的钱)过活; 靠(某一收入来源)过活; (动物)靠吃(某种食物)维持生命,以…为食; (人)以…为主要食物
柯林斯词典
- PHRASAL VERB 依赖(某人)生活
If youlive offanother person, you rely on them to provide you with money.- ...a man who all his life had lived off his father.
一辈子都依靠父亲生活的男人
- ...a man who all his life had lived off his father.
双语例句
- Instead of getting a job after college, I decided to hit the road and live off the land.
大学毕业后,我没有去找工作,决心去流浪,过悠闲的生活。 - Hobbits live off the earth, growing their own food and cooking it themselves.
霍比特人生活在这个星球上,他们会自己种植,自己制作食物。 - I live off the money from my first book.
我靠我第一本书赚的钱生活。 - Live off somebody's generosity.
靠别人的慷慨给予而生活。 - We probably can't even afford to live off post.
我们大概负担不起在基地外生活。 - That he come down here to live off n us.
来这里跟我们一起生活。 - Instead of living off parents, you can live off lovers.
如果不依赖父母,你可以依赖爱人。 - It is a false model that we can live off knowledge and have manufacturing elsewhere.
我们可以以知识为生、在别的地方制造的模式是错误的。 - I can live off the small land I have.
我能住在我的小房子里。 - It's about time she got a job, live off of her parents money.
她是该找份工作了,竟花父母的钱。
