高中英语常用动词短语 make a living
释义:
make a living 谋生,维持生活
例句:
It's not a very secure way to make a living.
以此谋生终非长久之计。
Many farmers have to depend on subsidies to make a living wage.
许多农民不得不依靠补助来维持基本的生活需要。
She saw him as a visionary, but her father saw him as a man who couldn't make a living.
她认为他是个梦想家,但她的父亲却认为他没有谋生的能力。
If I can't make a living at painting, at least I can teach someone else to paint.
如果我不能以画画谋生的话,至少我能教别人画画。
Big cities have special attractions for people, for example, they can easily get a job to make a living.
大城市对人们有着特别的吸引力,比如,他们容易找到工作谋生。
Work hard and try to make a living.
努力工作,努力谋生。
This pits those who make a living from taking people to see the animals against those who shoot them.
这引起了那些从看动物的游人身上赚钱谋生的人们与射杀动物的人之间的冲突。
After leaving, and discovering that she could make a living from singing and modelling jobs, she set off down a road trodden by many pretty girls from small-town America, and drove to LA.
离开乐队后,她意识到可以靠唱歌和做模特来谋生,于是,她像许多来自美国的小城镇的漂亮女孩那样,怀揣明星梦踏上了去往洛杉矶的路。
I get that. I understand the reality of doctors having to make a living in a litigious climate in which any mistake or oversight can mean the end of their livelihood, and their financial security.
我理解这一点,我理解医生们的实际处境:他们不得不在容易引起官司的环境中谋生,任何失误或忽略都可能会意味着他们的谋生之路走到了尽头,他们的财源就会被切断。
With the recording industry still suffering through its long, steady decline, even fairly popular artists struggle these days to make a living off of record sales.
在如今唱片产业持续不景气的环境下,甚至一些相当流行的艺术家都要为靠唱片销量谋生而挣扎。
I was never going to make a living at it or win any awards, but until shortly after college it was a pursuit I greatly enjoyed.
我从没打算过以此谋生或得个什么奖,但直到大学毕业后的一段时间里我都乐于此道。