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

• When I'm rich I'll retire and live off the fat of the land.
  有钱的时候，我就退休，吃好的喝好的。
• 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。
• They live off fruit and nuts.
  他们以水果和坚果为食。
• Don't live off your bonus.
  不要太过于依赖你的奖金。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• I live off of Roosevelt.
  我住在罗斯福附近。
• You live off other people's troubles.
  你以别人的烦恼为乐。