live off the land是什么意思

双语例句

(1)Most of these people are poor, live off the land in some manner, use wood for fuel, and, are unlettered.

大多数人都贫穷，以各种各样的方式依靠土地为生，以木材为燃料，且没有受过教育。

(2)So now, at Jacob's help, they must learn to live off the land - learning to hunt in the woods, learning to grow vegetables, learn pigs chickens.

所以现在，在雅各布的帮助下，他们必须学会靠土地生活——学习在森林里猎食，学习种菜，学习喂猪养鸡。

(3)While that's not even enough to swim in, it could indicate sufficient water in permanently shaded craters at the poles for future astronauts to live off the land.

虽然这点水甚至还不够把人泡在里面，却表明在月球两极的那些永久背阴的陨石坑里有充足的水，可以让未来的宇航员在这片土地上生活。

(4)Dad is from La Union, a rural area approximately 230 kilometres north of the capital Manila, and where most people live off the land, raising and selling poultry and livestock.

他出生于拉蒙（La Union），一个离马尼拉北约230公里的乡村地区，那儿的人们世代务农，以家畜为生。

(5)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。

释义

live on whatever food one can obtain by hunting, gathering, or subsistence farming

靠山吃山，靠水吃水。