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.- ...a man who all his life had lived off his father.
一辈子都依靠父亲生活的男人
- ...a man who all his life had lived off his father.
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。 - 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”。 - I can hunt! We can live off the fat of the land.
我可以打猎！我们可以就地取材。 - 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。 - I live off of Roosevelt.
我住在罗斯福附近。 - They said they live off of animal blood.
他们说他们以喝动物的血为生。 - You live off other people's troubles.
你以别人的烦恼为乐。 - They live off fruit and nuts.
他们以水果和坚果为食。 - 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。 - 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。