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

• 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。
• 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'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 live off the money from my first book.
  我靠我第一本书赚的钱生活。
• 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。
• Being a parent is a one way deal: you work for them, they live off you.
  现在养育子女就是一味付出：你为他们尽力，他们依靠你生活。
• 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。
• 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。
• That he come down here to live off n us.
  来这里跟我们一起生活。