| 释义 |
live off (or on)1Depend on as a source of income or support: if you think you’re going to live off me for the rest of your life, you’re mistaken...- Her days as a single mother living on income support must now seem like a distant memory.
- In 1988, he was taken to court for rates still owed on his last pub and revealed that he was living on dole money.
- It's tempting to spend all your money and live off the state, or simply emigrate.
1.1Have (a particular amount of money) with which to buy food and other necessities: how much money do you need to live on?...- She told me the money she lives on isn't enough to cover the bills.
- Some people are simply not earning enough money to live on and must make stark choices between eating or heating.
- The scheme is administered by the health boards, who pay rent supplements to tenants living on low incomes in private rented accommodation, to help them with their weekly rent.
1.2Subsist on (a particular type of food): scavenging seabirds live off discarded fish and fish offal...- For weeks they slept under banana trees and lived on scavenged food.
- There is some debate as to whether early hominids were scavengers living off the remains of animals brought down and killed by other beasts, or whether these groups were hunters in their own right.
- Maybe they caught fish, or perhaps lived on the animals on the mountain side.
Synonyms subsist on, feed on/off, rely for nourishment on, thrive on, depend on; eat, consume, use 1.3(Of a person) eat, or seem to eat, only (a particular type of food): she used to live on bacon and tomato sandwiches...- Some folks here at work tried low carb, living on bacon for several weeks.
- Exclusive reliance on the car is the equivalent of living on fast food burgers - there should be no surprise if we get sick.
- Being born and raised in California and living off of Mexican food was going to make my life a bit interesting over here.
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