live on
- v. 继续存在，继续活着，延续下去；靠（某数额的钱或收入来源）过活，以……为收入来源；以……为食，以……为主食，靠吃……为生；（与地点名词连用）住在……
柯林斯英汉双解大词典
live on (also live off) ( living, lived, lives )
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PHRASAL VERB If you live on or live off a particular amount of money, you have that amount of money to buy things. 靠 (某数额的钱) 过活
例：...people trying to live on $100 a week.
…设法靠每周$100过日子的人们。
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PHRASAL VERB If you live on or live off a particular source of income, that is where you get the money that you need. 以…为收入来源
例：The proportion of Americans living on welfare rose.
靠福利生活的美国人的比例上升了。
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PHRASAL VERB If an animal lives on or lives off a particular food, this is the kind of food that it eats. 以…为主食
例：The fish live on the plankton.
这种鱼以浮游生物为主食。
双语例句原声例句权威例句
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The one hundred seventeen men,women and children were not the first white people to try to live on the island.
VOA: special.2009.08.17
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And that in some sense they would live on in this society which they had improved and made a better thing.
因而在某种程度上来说他们在今天依然活着,活在这个他们所改良的美好世界
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But if you can like, be stable enough to support the entire family, live on the Upper West Side, it's a class. It's a status symbol.
但如果你能住在上西区，让自己足够稳定，并能养活全家，那就是一种类似阶级一样的社会地位的象征了。
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