It makes us think about black artists playing for a living in Prohibition Era back rooms.

它使我们想到在禁酒令时代的小密屋里,那些演奏谋生的黑人艺术家。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

and I live with this very nice girl, my roommate who writes plays for a living and works at a theater.

我和一个女孩一起住，她人很好，在剧院工作，靠写戏剧为生，

布鲁克林的房价 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

You're not pinned down to a place working for a living.

你不会被阻止去一个地方工作求活。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

May I ask what you do for a living?

我能问问你做什么工作吗？

在超市遇到的人 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It's one thing to be thinking and for a living.

思考与生活是一件事。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

I study child development for a living and I'm interested in several questions.

我主要研究儿童的发展,我对很多问题都感兴趣

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

What do you do for a living?

你做什么维持生计？

伦敦的金融中心地 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

For the ancients, liberty meant living in a self-governing republic, living in a republic in which everyone again took some share in the ruling offices.

古人认为自由即意味着,生活在一个拥有自治权的共和国里，一个人人都有机会,治理国家的地方。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The image here that comes to mind for me is one of these deposed kings who ends up waiting on tables to make a living in New York.

我此刻想到的一幅景象,便是一位被废黜的国王,沦落到要在纽约靠当侍应生谋生的结局。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The dollar is plunging, -and the dollar is plunging perhaps maybe just around a little bit -- That's been sinking for some months now-- -because America has been living beyond her means borrowing 2 billion a day from foreign nations.

美元大幅走低，-我插一句，美元确实下跌了一点点,且几个月来持续疲软-,-原因在于美国长久以来一直入不敷出,财政赤字每天增长20亿。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

Yes. Most of our clients are people who have been living in an apartment or in a house for a while

好的。绝大多数委托人都是在公寓或者住所内居住有一段时间了，

我帮助过的人们 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

For the Greeks,on the other hand as I've said, political society was essential for living any kind of a good life.

对于希腊人,就像我说的另外一方面,对他们而言,政治社会,是人们获得幸福生活的关键

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

And then for some reason, that nobody understands, 16/15 he decided to multiply again by 16/15, and that's how we get 32 for freezing of water and 96 in his words for the temperature in the mouth or underneath armpit of a living man in good health.

然后，因为同样的原因，没人搞得明白，他决定再乘以，现在水的冰点变成了32度,而96度，拿他的话来说,是健康状况良好的人,口腔或腋窝的温度。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

It points to an exilic date for the work's final composition: that is to say when it was finally redacted, the redactors were in exile, writing for a people living in exile. And the Deuteronomist wants to make it clear that it is fidelity to the Torah, rather than residence in the land that is critically important.

它提出了最终成书是在流放时期：,就是说，当他最后被编辑完成，编辑是被流放的，是为流放中的人而著的书，《申命记》想要,表明它对经书的忠诚，而不是土地上的居所，这点非常重要。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

So here, just living at different university, like living at school for a while,

在这里，住在不同的大学，在学校住一阵子，

快乐的校园生活 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Whereas for me, living outside of London, it's kind of, more of a necessity.

然而，对我来说，住在伦敦市区外面，它更像是一个必需品。

公共交通更方便 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人