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
- I live off the money from my first book.
我靠我第一本书赚的钱生活。 - He only agreed to marry her so he could live off her.
他同意娶她仅仅是为了能靠她的钱生活。 - They said they live off of animal blood.
他们说他们以喝动物的血为生。 - 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。 - They find it hard to live off the money they make.
他们发现靠他们赚的那点钱生活的确不易。 - They live off fruit and nuts.
他们以水果和坚果为食。 - Most residents live off corn farming, herding and selling supplies to hikers.
这里的大部分居民目前靠种玉米、放牧和向远足者出售物资为生。 - Being a parent is a one way deal: you work for them, they live off you.
现在养育子女就是一味付出:你为他们尽力,他们依靠你生活。 - I can live off the small land I have.
我能住在我的小房子里。 - In the summer it is harder to catch seals, so before summer arrives, the bears eat as much as they can to fatten up, then live off the fat in their bodies.
在夏季,它是很难捕捉海豹,所以夏季到来之前,熊大量吃因为它们可以用来催肥了,然后吃了他们的身体脂肪。