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 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。
• I can live off the small land I have.
  我能住在我的小房子里。
• 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。
• Don't live off your bonus.
  不要太过于依赖你的奖金。
• They live off fruit and nuts.
  他们以水果和坚果为食。
• That he come down here to live off n us.
  来这里跟我们一起生活。
• I live off of Roosevelt.
  我住在罗斯福附近。
• 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。
• 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。