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live on
verbo transitivo con partícula
1vivir de (depend on)
  • it's not enough to l on -> no da para vivir
verbo intransitivo
2sobrevivir, vivir (continue to live) (person); perdurar (memory)

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live on
verb:intransitive:plus_preposition
1 (subsist on)
what does he live on? ¿de qué vive?; he lives on £50 a week vive con 50 libras por semana; we have just enough to live on tenemos lo justo para vivir
she doesn't earn enough to live on I won't live on charity people living on low incomes I'd sooner live on the dole
to live on borrowed time tener los días contados
at midnight Eastern time Saddam Hussein begins living on borrowed time if his troops don't get out of Kuwait Branch's own organization is living on borrowed time - its state funding runs out in June of this year thereafter he was always operating on borrowed time, with Truman anxious to replace him with Marshall
2 (feed on) alimentarse de
she lives on cheese vive solo a base de queso; she absolutely lives on chocolate no come otra cosa más que chocolate
I lived on garbage that I stole from trash cans at night you can't live on air
verb:intransitive:plus_adverb
(go on living) [+person, memory, tradition] seguir vivo
his memory lives on within us su recuerdo sigue vivo en nosotros; Lenin lives on in the minds and hearts of many people Lenin sigue vivo en las mentes y corazones de muchas personas
this evil killer lives on but I'm left to visit the cemetery the cult of St Gildas still lives on in Carhaix things get said in the heat of the moment that are regretted afterwards, but /the memory of what was said lives on/ and spoils relationships the spirit of the monarchy lives on in Diana more than any of the other Royals

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