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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - I can live off the small land I have.
我能住在我的小房子里。 - Live off somebody's generosity.
靠别人的慷慨给予而生活。 - I live off the money from my first book.
我靠我第一本书赚的钱生活。 - 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。 - When I'm rich I'll retire and live off the fat of the land.
有钱的时候，我就退休，吃好的喝好的。