那位先生靠什么生活？

What does that gentleman do for a living?

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 那位 nàwèi
  1. significant other; partner
  2. that person
=2 先生 xiānsheng
  1. teacher
  2. gentleman; sir; mister (Mr.)
  3. husband
  4. (dialect) doctor

classifier: 位
=2 先生 xiānshēng
  1. (dialectal) traditional Chinese medicine physician
  2. (literal, Classical) one who was born earlier
  3. (literary) Taoist priest
  4. (literary) ancestor
  5. (literary) father and elder brother
  6. An honorific for adults, usually conferred on males: mister; sir; gentleman
  7. Taoist priest
  8. ancestor
  9. father and elder brother
  10. husband
  11. one who was born earlier
  12. traditional Chinese medicine physician
3 靠 kào
  1. to lean against or on
  2. to stand by the side of
  3. to come near to
  4. to depend on
  5. to trust
  6. to fuck (vulgar)
  7. traditional military costume drama where the performers wear armor (old)
4 什么 shénme
  1. what?
  2. something; anything
5 生活 shēnghuó
  1. to live
  2. life
  3. livelihood