live on

alimentarse de, subsistir a base de

Mantenerse con vida comiendo un alimento o tomando una bebida determinados.

En inglés sencillo: To stay alive by eating or drinking a particular kind of food or drink.

• You cannot live on sweets alone.
• They lived on rice and beans during the winter.
• What do these tiny animals live on?

Cómo se usa: live on something (The stranded hikers lived on berries for several days.)

Sinónimos: subsist on, survive on

Expresiones frecuentes: live on something, live on rice

vivir de, subsistir con

Cubrir las necesidades con una cantidad de dinero o una fuente de ingresos determinada.

En inglés sencillo: To pay for your needs using a particular amount or source of money.

• We live on my salary.
• He lived on his savings while looking for work.
• Could you live on that much money each month?

Cómo se usa: live on something (She lives on a small pension.)

Sinónimos: get by on, subsist on

Expresiones frecuentes: live on something, live on savings

perdurar, seguir vivo

Seguir existiendo o siendo recordado después de una muerte o del paso de mucho tiempo.

En inglés sencillo: To continue to exist or be remembered after a death or after a long time.

• Her memory lives on.
• The old traditions lived on in remote villages.
• His music will live on long after his death.

Cómo se usa: live on in/through something (His memory lives on in the stories his children tell.)

Sinónimos: endure, survive, last

Antónimos: disappear

Expresiones frecuentes: live on forever, live on through something

estar definido en

Estar definida una función sobre un conjunto o espacio al que pertenecen sus valores de entrada.

En inglés sencillo: If a mathematical function exists on a particular set or space, that is where its inputs belong.

• The function lives on the real line.
• These functions live on a curved surface.
• Which space does this mathematical object live on?

Cómo se usa: live on a set/space (This function lives on the unit interval.)

Sinónimos: be defined on

Expresiones frecuentes: live on something, live on manifolds