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'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 can live off the small land I have.
  我能住在我的小房子里。
• Most residents live off corn farming, herding and selling supplies to hikers.
  这里的大部分居民目前靠种玉米、放牧和向远足者出售物资为生。
• 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。
• 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。
• You can't live off your parents your whole life.
  你不能一辈子都靠父母。
• You live off other people's troubles.
  你以别人的烦恼为乐。
• 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。
• Don't live off your bonus.
  不要太过于依赖你的奖金。
• 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。