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

• 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。
• They live off fruit and nuts.
  他们以水果和坚果为食。
• I live off my pension even that goes to the charity when I die.
  我靠退休金生活，如果我离世的话，剩下的退休金也将全部捐给慈善机构。
• Instead of living off parents, you can live off lovers.
  如果不依赖父母，你可以依赖爱人。
• 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。
• Live off somebody's generosity.
  靠别人的慷慨给予而生活。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Don't live off your bonus.
  不要太过于依赖你的奖金。