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
- Live off somebody's generosity.
靠别人的慷慨给予而生活。 - 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 can live off the small land I have.
我能住在我的小房子里。 - All live off many people, but the elephant is not cooperate, nobody can do, the king was disappointed, finally to a beggar, he said to the king, and said, I have: that's ok, you can try.
全过上下来了很多人,但大象很不配合,没一个人能做到,国王很失望,最后来了一个乞丐,他说我有办法,国王说:那好吧,你就试试吧。 - I can hunt! We can live off the fat of the land.
我可以打猎!我们可以就地取材。 - 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 live off my pension even that goes to the charity when I die.
我靠退休金生活,如果我离世的话,剩下的退休金也将全部捐给慈善机构。 - We probably can't even afford to live off post.
我们大概负担不起在基地外生活。 - Instead of living off parents, you can live off lovers.
如果不依赖父母,你可以依赖爱人。 - They said they live off of animal blood.
他们说他们以喝动物的血为生。
