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。 - I live off the money from my first book.
我靠我第一本书赚的钱生活。 - 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 live off of Roosevelt.
我住在罗斯福附近。 - 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。 - Live off somebody's generosity.
靠别人的慷慨给予而生活。 - I can live off the small land I have.
我能住在我的小房子里。 - 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”。 - 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。 - 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。