| 词汇 | live off somebody/something |
| 释义 | live off somebody/somethinglive off somebody/something phrasal verbphr v EARNto get your income or food from a supply of money or from another person 靠…生活 Mom used to live off the interest from her savings. 妈妈过去靠存款利息生活。 Dad lost his job and we had to live off welfare. 爸爸失业了，我们只能靠福利救济过日子。 Most people in the countryside live off the land (=live by growing or finding their own food). 乡村中大多数人都靠土地生活。 Examples from the Corpus live off the land• Bush Tucker Man used to live off the land and, indeed, anything that ran fractionally slower than he did.• Most of the 300,000 people live off the land and no one has gone hungry. → live off somebody/something at live1(PHRASAL VERB) |
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