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词汇 live-on
释义

live on something


phrasal verb with liveverbuk /lɪv/ us /lɪv/

(MONEY)


B2
If you live on an amount of money, that is the money that you use to buy the things that you need: 依靠(…钱)生活
We lived on very little when we first got married.我们刚结婚的时候日子过得很紧。
I can live on my inheritance.
The job provides enough to live on.
His earnings aren't enough to live on.
They live on the money they earn from growing tobacco.
It's hard to imagine what these people live on.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Paying money
2FA
2SV
ante up (something)
burn a hole in someone's pocketidiom
buying power
cost-cutting
fund
non-contributory
overpaid
put someone through something
put something towards something
reimburse
run to something
self-finance
set someone back (something)
spend
spent
splurge
sponsor
tipper

(FOOD)


B2
to only eat a particular type of food: 靠(…食物)生存;只吃
I more or less live on pasta.我基本上只吃意大利面。
They live on a diet of maize.
Our cat lives on chicken and milk.
You can't live on chips.
They live on fast food.
They have to live on what they can grow themselves.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Eating
al desko
binge
binge eating
bite
break breadidiom
cram
devour
fall on/upon someone
feast
feast on something
feeder
feeding
inhale
mainline
picnic
pig
pig out
postprandial
postprandially
shovel

live on sth | Business English


live on sth


phrasal verb with liveverbuk /lɪv/us
if you live on an amount of money, that is the money that you use to buy the things that you need:
Nearly 5 million of Morocco's 33 million people live on less than $2 a day, according to the World Bank.
live on a budget/a low income/a fixed income etc.Many retired people living on fixed incomes need to estimate what the purchasing power of money will be over long periods in the future.
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