英语词汇“to live on capital”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. to live on (also upon) (one's) capital: to spend or use up one's existing assets or resources without doing anything to replenish them. Also figurative and in extended use.

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1774 S. Seabury Free Thoughts Proc. Continental Congr. 16 The inferior merchant is ruined; he has lived on his capital; it is gone.

1834 H. Martineau Moral Many Fables ii. 48 The case of those who are driven to live upon their capital is, at least, better than that of the party which has no capital to live upon.

1883 R. Broughton Belinda iii. vii. 330 Belinda is living on her capital. At the week's end she will be bankrupt.

1939 T. S. Eliot Family Reunion ii. ii. 105 It is as if I had been living all these years upon my capital, Instead of earning my spiritual income daily.

1991 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 15 Oct. 6 We have wrecked the planet. We are now living on our capital.

2008 J. Hart Empires & Colonies vi. 235 Its industries declining steadily and then faster in the 1930s, Britain was living on its capital.

单词	to live on capital
释义	> as lemmas to live on (also upon) (one's) capital a. to live on (also upon) (one's) capital: to spend or use up one's existing assets or resources without doing anything to replenish them. Also figurative and in extended use. ΚΠ 1774 S. Seabury Free Thoughts Proc. Continental Congr. 16 The inferior merchant is ruined; he has lived on his capital; it is gone. 1834 H. Martineau Moral Many Fables ii. 48 The case of those who are driven to live upon their capital is, at least, better than that of the party which has no capital to live upon. 1883 R. Broughton Belinda iii. vii. 330 Belinda is living on her capital. At the week's end she will be bankrupt. 1939 T. S. Eliot Family Reunion ii. ii. 105 It is as if I had been living all these years upon my capital, Instead of earning my spiritual income daily. 1991 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 15 Oct. 6 We have wrecked the planet. We are now living on our capital. 2008 J. Hart Empires & Colonies vi. 235 Its industries declining steadily and then faster in the 1930s, Britain was living on its capital. extracted from capitaladj.n.² < as lemmas
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