for a living

基本解釋

They need to manage a group of programmers, but they do not understand what they do for a living besides “they write code”.
他們要管理一個(gè)程序員團(tuán)隊(duì)，但他并不關(guān)注的程序員的生活，只是知道讓程序員們一味的“編寫(xiě)代碼”。
Kids right out of school have the greatest potential, just like young mathematicians, but they do need how to work for a living.
從學(xué)校畢業(yè)的孩子們擁有最大的潛力，就像年輕的數(shù)學(xué)家一樣，但是他們更需要知道如何為了生活而工作。
If you have an opportunity to make it known what you do for a living and it’s appropriate, then by all means, put it in the comment!
如果你有機(jī)會(huì)讓大家知道，你靠做什么來(lái)過(guò)一種合適的生活，那就想盡辦法把它寫(xiě)到評(píng)論中去吧！

Then the young man decided to become an independent illustrator, someone who makes drawings and pictures for a living.
It makes us think about black artists playing for a living in Prohibition Era back rooms.
它使我們想到在禁酒令時(shí)代的小密屋里,那些演奏謀生的黑人藝術(shù)家。
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and I live with this very nice girl, my roommate who writes plays for a living and works at a theater.
我和一個(gè)女孩一起住，她人很好，在劇院工作，靠寫(xiě)戲劇為生，
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But I implement customer relationship management applications from various vendors (including Microsoft) for a living.
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