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

• Have you no shame? Always trying to live off other people's wealth!
  你没羞吗？总想当别人的寄生虫！
• Live off somebody's generosity.
  靠别人的慷慨给予而生活。
• They live off fruit and nuts.
  他们以水果和坚果为食。
• I live off of Roosevelt.
  我住在罗斯福附近。
• 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 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。
• You can't live off your parents your whole life.
  你不能一辈子都靠父母。
• 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。
• 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”。
• You live off other people's troubles.
  你以别人的烦恼为乐。