靠...为生

How did you earn your daily bread when you were there?

你在那里的时候靠什麼为生？

"The young wage earner often earns good money, and soon acquires a feeling of economic independence ."

靠工资为生的青年人常常收入甚丰。不久就有了一种经济独立的感觉。

Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world,----as invalids and the insane pay a high board.

他们以赔罪减责为生，就像身心伤残者靠支付高额膳宿费。

The cow herself lived by licking the ice-blocks; from which, in consequence of the licking , was produced Bori, who is alike the fashioner of the world, and the father of Bor, who was the father of Odin

而这头奶牛则是靠舔食冰块为生的，冰块经过她的舔食便诞生了布利，即伯尔的父亲——奥丁的爷爷，他也是这个世界的创始人。

From Ken Rockwell, the free lance photographer and blogger, advices and tips on how to be able to afford things like luxury SLRs and Lens.

Ken Rockwell是一个自由摄影师和博客写手，主要靠摄影作品和他的博客(有一些购买摄影器材的推荐链接)为生。

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。

He is a poverty-stricken person, rely on to sell hairbrush to make a living.

他是个穷苦人，靠卖发刷为生。

New York based artist Jocko Weyland (Helsinki, 1967) is also a writer, curator, editor and skateboarder.

没想到3年后，2008年他又来北京，这次他来住了一段时间，我们一起滑板喝酒，对他了解更多了一些，他原来是个靠写作和策展为生的老滑板人。

One of them was Lillie Hardin, the Arkansas woman who had so impressed my fellow governors ten years earlier when she said the best thing about leaving welfare for work was that when my boy goes to school and they ask him, What does your mama do for a living?

他们中的一位是来自阿肯色州的莉莉·哈丁。十年前，她给我的州长同事们留下了深刻印象，她说，不再领受福利去工作的最大好处是：当我的儿子去学校，他们问他'你妈妈靠什么为生？

Mariana washed for a living after her husband died of liver cancer.

玛丽安娜在她的丈夫死于肝癌以后靠洗衣服为生。

As she looked at Warrington's manly face, and dark, melancholy eyes, she had settled in her mind that he must have been the victim of an unhappy attachment.

每逢看到沃林顿那刚毅的脸，那乌黑、忧郁的眼睛，她便会相信，他一定作过不幸的爱情的受害者。

Maybe they'll disappear into a pothole.

也许他们将在壶穴里消失