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词汇 live on
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Phr V
live on
lives, living, lived
live on sth
to have a particular amount of money in order to buy the things you need
He and his family live on $70 a week.I had to take an evening job because we didn't have enough money to live on.
to only eat a particular type of food
Martin lived on peanut butter sandwiches while we were staying in New York.
live on
to continue to exist
The memory of Pete will live on.That is one of the only traditions that still lives on.
phraselive on1. live on sth not passive if you live on a particular amount of money, you have that amount of money available to buy the things you need to live: At that time we were living on $50 a week.not have/make enough to live on (=not have or earn enough money to buy the things you need) A lot of artists can't make enough to live on.2. live on sth not passive to only eat a particular kind of food: Most of the population live on a diet of rice. SIMILAR TO: live off3. live on to continue to exist or live, especially for a long time or for longer than expected: Great music lives on - long after the composer is dead. Many of the old traditions still live on. A growing number of people live on into their eighties or nineties.

live on

1. To use some resource as one's means of survival or financial security. I guess we should be glad to get anything at all from social welfare, but how do they expect us to live on $300 a month? I had to live on berries and birds' eggs while I was stranded in the wilderness.
2. To continue to survive or endure. Everyone thought print books would vanish with the rise of eBook readers, but printed media lives on even now.
3. To remain in people's memory after someone dies or something ceases. We'll all miss her terribly, but the memory of our grandmother will live on in everyone who knew and loved her. Even twenty years after the war ended, fear of the enemy lives on in this country.

live on something

to depend on something for sustenance. (Compare this with live off someone or something.) I can't live on bread and water. We can hardly live on $500 a week.

live on

(after someone or something) to be remembered long after someone or something might otherwise be forgotten or dead, in the case of persons. His good works will live on long after him. Fears of war will live on after the actual conflict. I hope my memory lives on.

live on an amount of money

to live on a specific amount of money; to manage to live on a specific amount of money. Can you live on only that much money? I can live on a very small amount of money.

live on

1. Be financially supported by, subsist on, as in His pension is too small to live on. [Mid-1600s]
2. Continue to survive, especially unexpectedly, as in They thought the cancer would kill her, but Lucy lived on for another twenty years.
3. Remain in human memory, as in This book will live on long after the author's death.

live on

v.
1. To survive or provide for one's needs by using some resource: The retiree had to live on a fixed income. The family lived on $30,000 a year.
2. To persist; endure: Although The Beatles broke up decades ago, their music lives on.
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