for a living

基本解释

They need to manage a group of programmers, but they do not understand what they do for a living besides “they write code”.
他们要管理一个程序员团队，但他并不关注的程序员的生活，只是知道让程序员们一味的“编写代码”。
Kids right out of school have the greatest potential, just like young mathematicians, but they do need how to work for a living.
从学校毕业的孩子们拥有最大的潜力，就像年轻的数学家一样，但是他们更需要知道如何为了生活而工作。
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!
如果你有机会让大家知道，你靠做什么来过一种合适的生活，那就想尽办法把它写到评论中去吧！

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。
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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.
我和一个女孩一起住，她人很好，在剧院工作，靠写戏剧为生，
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But I implement customer relationship management applications from various vendors (including Microsoft) for a living.
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