live off
释义
以…为食， 以…为生；
双语例句
Most of the Asians live off rice.
多数亚洲人以大米为主食。
The poor people starved, while a few lived off the fat of the land.
穷人饿肚子，而极少数人却过着穷奢极欲的生活。
Every year the groups of seals that live off our coasts are culled out because they eat too much fish.
每年居住在我们海岸边的海豹都被人挑选一部分杀死，因为它们吃掉的鱼太多。
In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it.
为了靠果园生活，实际上你得住进里边去。
权威例句
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1. They live miles off the beaten track.
他们住在偏远地带。
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2. We live off Main Street.
我们住在大街附近。
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3. I'm going to live off campus if I can find somewhere cheap enough.
如果我能找到一个足够便宜的地方，我打算住在校外。
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4. He seems to live off junk food.
他好像靠吃垃圾食品为生。
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5. Unlike in some European countries, it is extremely hard for an able-bodied immigrant to live off the state.
与一些欧洲国家不同，一个身强力壮的移民要靠政府供养是极其困难的。
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6. And there are the townsfolk who largely live off the tourists who come, not to see the plays, but to look at Anne Hathaway's Cottage, Shakespeare's birthplace and the other sights.
有些游客来这里不是为了看戏，而是来参观安妮·海瑟薇的小屋、莎士比亚的出生地和其他景点，一些镇民主要靠这类游客为生。
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7. But over 80 have deficits of more than 5% of GDP. Most of these are poor countries that live off foreign aid; but some larger ones rely on private capital.
但是80多个国家的财政赤字已经超过GDP的5%，其中的多数是那些依靠国外救助过活得贫困国家；不过也有一些依靠私人资本的大国。
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8. Some of the consequences have been long foreseen, like deflation: as more Japanese retire and live off their savings, they spend less, further depressing Japan's anemic levels of domestic consumption.
人们早就预见到了其中一些后果，如通货紧缩：较多的日本人退休后，会靠储蓄生活，他们花的钱变少，又会进一步加剧日本国内消费的不足。
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9. Most of these are poor countries that live off foreign aid; but some larger ones rely on private capital.
多数的这类国家是依赖外国援助生存的穷国；但是其中一些大些的国家是依赖私人资本。
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10. No one is sure just how many Americans live off the national public-utilities grid - relying on generators or alternate energy sources such as solar, wind and geothermal.
没人知道究竟有多少美国人靠国家公共事业的网络生活—依靠发电机或替代能源，如太阳能、风能和地热能。
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11. In 2010, can anyone realistically live off the grid?
在2010年还能有人可以脱离整个世界地生活么？
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12. Europeans can live off their inherited wealth for a bit longer, and many still lead largely enviable lives.
欧洲人未来一段时间内还可以其继承财产生活的舒适坦荡，而且其中很多人的生活仍然令人嫉妒。
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13. So we know lots of different pathways, thousands of different organisms now that live off of CO2, and can capture that back.
我们知道，通过许多不同的途径，数以千计的生物能够捕获，并且依赖二氧化碳生存。
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14. The company now has around 100 designers in Delhi making books for Dorling Kindersley, belying the idea that Britain can at least live off its creative industries.
公司目前在德里大约有100位设计人员为英国多林·金德斯利有限公司制造书籍，这掩饰着英国可以依靠其创意产业生存的假象。
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15. Once the sea slug has eaten enough algae, and gained enough plastids, it can live off just sunlight for up to nine months.
一旦海蛤蝓吃饱了海藻，储备够了叶绿体，它能仅仅靠阳光就能生活最多9个月。
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16. I want to be able to live off the interest of my non-retirement investments.
我希望能够靠我非退休金的投资收益生活。
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17. But I took Jonathan's advice, and I have enough money to live off of for a few months as a safety net, because I will live a simple life with few expenses.
但我听从了Jonathan的建议，我的钱还是足够活几个月，因为我要采取简单的生活方式，花销不会很大。
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18. But we live off the tunnels.
但是现在靠地道过活。
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19. They're good news, but they're not enough to live off of.
他们会是好消息，但不足以帮助我们完全脱离困境。
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20. It is a potent magnet for those millions of country people who can barely live off the measly landholdings available to them.
数百万的农村人在自己极少的土地上几乎到了无法生存的地步，这样城市生活就成了他们的一个强烈向往。
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21. And there are the townsfolk who largely live off the tourists who come, not to see the plays, but to look at Anne Hathaways Cottage, Shakespeares birthplace and the other sights.
另一边是靠游客谋生的市民，游客来到小镇不是为了看戏，而是想看看安妮·海瑟薇的房舍、莎士比亚的出生地和其他的风景点。
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22. Most of these are poorcountries that live off foreign aid; but some larger ones rely onprivate capital.
多数这些国家是依赖外国援助的穷国；但是一些大国依赖于私人资金。
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23. Germany's exporters cannot live off China alone, and their other big customers, in America, Britain, eastern Europe and Spain, will not be as free-spending as they once were.
德国的出口商不能只靠中国为生，但是他们其余的诸如美国，英国，东欧和西班牙这样的大客户不会像之前一样随心所欲的花钱了。
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24. It is certainly not 100% (the amount taken in Gulf states) because the rest of creation also has to live off the water.
当然，这一比例不会是海湾地区国家所称的100%，因为其他生物也需要靠水才能够生存。
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25. Once dispersed , the oil can then be broken down more easily by bacteria that have evolved to live off natural sources of hydrocarbons.
一旦被（化学）分散，随后浮油就更容易被进化到以碳氢化合物等天然污染源为食的细菌降解。
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26. Some of the families give up their jobs and live off their sons.
有些家庭甚至都辞职不工作了，全靠他们踢球的儿子过日子。
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27. Since then, life has never been easy for the villagers, as they have to live off the tiny pieces of land.
从此，大多数村民的生活，就不曾安逸，因为他们必须依赖小小农地过活。
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28. Gordon: I hope your right. Otherwise, I'll just marry you and live off your job.
戈登：我希望你说得对，否则，我就跟你结婚靠你工作来养我。
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29. The situation is no better in Europe. Many smaller European companies have been able to live off their reserves because they entered the crisis with balance-sheets fattened by the boom.
欧洲的情况也不乐观，很多欧洲的小公司由于经济泡沫而陷入了资产负债表危机，已经开始启用企业备用资金，但现在，这些资金也即将用尽。
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30. With food low and kit breaking, we had to increasingly live off our wits to survive. It became the part of the expedition that was the most memorable.
食物很少，装备也有损坏，我们越来越需要依靠自己的智慧来求生，这一部分旅程也成为整个探险中最值得回忆的。
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