I know you are one of the few women taxi drivers in the city now, and you drive for a living.

我知道你是这个城市里为数不多的女出租车司机之一，以开车为生。

He mended shoes for a living.

他靠修鞋为生。

What did she do for a living ?

她过去干哪一行为生？

What do you do for a living ?

你靠什么谋生？

He was reduced to begging for a living.

他不得不以乞讨为生。

Father never talked about what he did for a living.

父亲从未谈起他是做什么来谋生的。

You know, Brian, whatever you may think, I work hard for a living.

你知道，布雷恩，不管你会怎么想，我是为了生计而努力工作。

Louis Armstrong defined jazz pithily as "what I play for a living."

路易斯•阿姆斯特朗把爵士乐简单定义为“我为了谋生而玩的东西。”

85 percent said they would rather not sell their bodies for a living.

85%的人说她们不会出卖肉体以谋生。

What you do for a living is critical to where you settle and how you live – and the converse is also true.

你的工作决定你在哪里定居和怎样生活–反之亦然。

Tony Kepler raises killer snakes for a living and he loves his job.

托尼·开普勒以养蛇为生，他热爱自己的工作。

Thirdly, you might want to pick them up and give them to an old man or woman who collects waste for a living.

第三，你可能想把它们捡起来，然后送给一个以捡垃圾为生的老人。

If you can start the conversation with a question other than "What do you do for a living?", you'll be able to get a lot more interesting conversation out of whomever it is you're talking to.

如果你能以“你以什么谋生？”以外的问题开始交谈，你就能从与你交谈的人那里获得更多有趣的对话。

And could you tell me what you do for a living?

你能告诉我你是做什么工作的吗？

Even though I study habit-forming technology for a living, disconnecting is not easy for me.

尽管我以研究习惯养成技术为生，但断网对我来说并不容易。

You'd better learn a trade while you are young, so that you may not cheat for a living when you are old.

你最好趁年轻时学一点手艺，以便在年老时不靠行骗为生。

Although the same law holds for a living organism, the result of this law is not inexorable in the same way.

尽管同样的法则也适用于生物体，但是在相同的方式下，这一法则的作用结果并不是无法改变。

As a person who writes about food and drink for a living, I couldn't tell you the first thing about Bill Perry or whether the beers he sells are that great.

作为一个以写饮食评论为生的人，我无法告诉你有关比尔·佩里的任何事，或者他卖的啤酒是否真的那么出色。

Rick Rahim from Virginia flies helicopters for a living, and when his seven-year-old son's tooth became loose he did not waste time by tying it to a door handle.

来自弗吉尼亚州的里克·拉希姆以开直升机为生，当他7岁儿子的牙齿松动时，他毫不犹豫地就把牙绑在门把手上。

I write comments for a living.

我靠写评论为生。

This is what I do for a living.

我就靠这个谋生。

This is what I do for a living now.

这就是现在我谋生的工作。

Do you do for a living?

你是做什么为生的？

I'm an editor. What do you do for a living?

我是一名编辑。你是干哪一行的？

I hired someone who does that for a living.

我雇了个以找人为生的人。

Poverty reduced them to begging for a living.

贫困迫使他们乞讨为生。

Twenty years ago, I drove a cab for a living.

二十年前，我以开出租车为生。

I don't do anything for a living. I just live.

我为生存什么也不做，我只是活着。