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
- 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。 - You live off other people's troubles.
你以别人的烦恼为乐。 - 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。 - The trees rest and live off the food they stored during the summer.
这时植物可以休息了,开始消耗它们在夏季储存的“食物”。 - 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。 - I live off Lipton's chicken noodle soup,@ she says.
她说,我现在靠吃利普顿的鸡肉面条汤过活。 - 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。 - That he come down here to live off n us.
来这里跟我们一起生活。 - 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。