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
- 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。 - 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。 - That he come down here to live off n us.
来这里跟我们一起生活。 - 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。 - 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 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。 - 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”。 - We probably can't even afford to live off post.
我们大概负担不起在基地外生活。 - You can't live off your parents your whole life.
你不能一辈子都靠父母。 - I live off the money from my first book.
我靠我第一本书赚的钱生活。