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.
  1. ...a man who all his life had lived off his father.
     一辈子都依靠父亲生活的男人

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。
• I'm going to live off campus if I can find somewhere cheap enough
  要是能找到足够便宜的地方，我就不在校园里住了。
• 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。
• Live off somebody's generosity.
  靠别人的慷慨给予而生活。
• Don't live off your bonus.
  不要太过于依赖你的奖金。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Instead of getting a job after college, I decided to hit the road and live off the land.
  大学毕业后，我没有去找工作，决心去流浪，过悠闲的生活。