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

• We probably can't even afford to live off post.
  我们大概负担不起在基地外生活。
• 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。
• I live off of Roosevelt.
  我住在罗斯福附近。
• Live off somebody's generosity.
  靠别人的慷慨给予而生活。
• 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'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。
• 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”。
• You can't live off your parents your whole life.
  你不能一辈子都靠父母。