What do you do for a living ?

你靠什么谋生？

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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。

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

我是一名编辑。你是干哪一行的？

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What do you do for a living?

你做什么维持生计？

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And this is what linguists do for a living so if you hear me talking about this and say, "I want to spend the next forty years of my life studying that," you should become a linguist.

这就是语言学家们研究的问题,如果你听了我的讲解然后说,"我想用我的余生来研究这些东西",那你该去做一个语言学家

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May I ask what you do for a living?

我能问问你做什么工作吗？

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