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 live off Lipton's chicken noodle soup,@ she says.
  她说，我现在靠吃利普顿的鸡肉面条汤过活。
• Don't live off your bonus.
  不要太过于依赖你的奖金。
• 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。
• 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。
• They said they live off of animal blood.
  他们说他们以喝动物的血为生。
• 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。
• 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。
• I live off the money from my first book.
  我靠我第一本书赚的钱生活。
• We probably can't even afford to live off post.
  我们大概负担不起在基地外生活。