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他们山吃海喝奢侈了几年，直至坐吃山空。They lived high on the hog for several years until they had no money.

就算有储蓄，几个月内也会坐吃山空。Even if they had some savings, these would be depleted in a few months' time.

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取粮不储量，桶底粮也光。坐吃山空。Always taking out the meal-tub, and never putting in, soon comes to the bottom.

缺乏资金的团购网站坐吃山空，必须压缩成本才能生存。The group that lacks capital buys website sit idle and eat, must compress cost ability to live.

莱因哈特并非是一个坐吃山空的“富二代”，而是一个出色的财富继承人和精明的企业经营者。Gina Rinehart is not a "second rich generation", but she is an outstanding rich heir and a cunning business operator.

人民不再依赖福利坐吃山空，而是回到工作岗位，依靠美国人民的双手和勤劳，重建我们的国家。We will get our people off of welfare and back to work rebuilding our country with American hands and American labor.

当然，我不能坐吃山空。如果我要赢得在你心里的形象，就还得加倍努力。Of course, I can't just sit on my hands and I still have plenty to do if I'm going to earn the image you see in your mirror.

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问原因，她说，毕业之后想留在北京，衣食住行都要花钱，总不能坐吃山空。Asked why, she said, wanted to stay in Beijing after graduation, basic necessities of life is to spend money, cannot rest on their laurels.

首先，一旦功成名就，你会很容易变得洋洋自满、变得停滞不前、变得坐吃山空甚至幻想一次次成功会接踵而至。First off, when you're successful it's easy to get complacent. It's easy to stop learning, to rest on your laurels, or to just try to repeat what made you successful over and over again.

云南未来旅游核心竞争能力的培育除了维持上述三大因素之外，要更注重管理和技术因素的引进和培育，否则会坐吃山空。Besides the above three factors, Yunnan should pay more attention to importing and breeding the tourism management and technology. Otherwise, Yunnan tourism will depend on nothing in the future.