depend

depend

英[dɪˈpend]美[dɪˈpend]

v.取决于，依赖；

第三人称单数：depends;

过去式：depended;

过去分词：depended;

现在分词：depending;

例句

You may depend on him to do it well.你可以相信他能把事办好。

You may depend on his/him coming.你可以相信他会来。

I'll be there, depend on it!你放心, 我一定去!

You may depend on him.你可以信赖他。

I depend on you to do it.这件事我就指望你了。

All living things depend on the sun for their growth.万物靠太阳生长。

We can depend on him for help.我们可以指望他帮忙。

You may depend on their support.你可依靠他们的支持。

You can't depend on your parents forever.你不能永远依赖你的双亲。

Once a very rich man, he is now down and out and must depend upon his friends for help.他曾是一个很富的人, 现在完全潦倒了, 必须靠朋友周济。

英语六级真题

Most affluent parents enroll their children in preschool or day care, while low-income parents are more likely to depend on family members.

Its flagship stores in major U.S. cities depend heavily on international tourist spending, which shrank at many retailers due to a strong dollar.

Closings were simple, practical, and accessible, as the modern woman depended on no personal maid to dress her.

If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be eliminated and if the well-being of the world's people enhanced—not just in this generation but in succeeding generations—we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends.

A politician noted for being cautious asserts that sustainable human development depends on the natural environment.

Asked what they would like to change in the world, the students mentioned only personal concerns such as slowing down the pace of life, gaining good friends, becoming more spiritual, becoming either more materially successful or less materially oriented ( ' , depending on the student's values), and being more respectful of the Earth, animals and other people.

Our society depends on them being able to make critical decisions about their own medical treatment say, or what we must do about global energy needs and demands.

This mission depends on traditions of rational discourse and vigorous defense of the scientific method.

This varies dramatically depending on crop, from three calories for plant crops to 35 calories in the production of beef.

In an earlier generation, we lost our connection to the land, and now we are losing our connection to the machinery we depend on," says Michael Hout, a sociologist at the University of California, Berkeley.

Because so many of our modern technologies and services depend on oil, nations, corporations, and institutions that control the trade in oil exercise extraordinary power

Over the years before the OPEC's embargo America had depended heavily on foreign oil/importing oil.

By 1973, domestic US sources of oil were peaking, and the nation was importing more of its oil, depending on a constant flow from abroad to keep cars on the road and machines running.

It is actually something deeper than mere happiness: it is joy, which the monk（僧侣）David Steindl-Rast describes as "that kind of happiness that doesn't depend on what happens.

depends (as neuroscientists like Antonio Damasio have found) on neural processes that are "inherently slow.

They believed the stability of a society depended heavily on humanistic studies.

As Yale law professor Anne Alstott argues, justifying parental support depends on defining the family as a social good that, in some sense, society must pay for.

That depends a little bit on the price.

Both can succeed depending on the specific situation.

Food security and fortunes depend on sufficient rain, and nowhere more so than in Africa, where 96% of farmland depends on rain instead of the irrigation common in more developed places.

The level of emissions they cause will depend on how the electricity to run them is generated, while brakes, tyres and toads all create tiny airborne particles as they wear out.

When the children are young, and depend upon the family for financial needs, families with modest incomes have difficulty providing enough life insurance to protect the mother and children.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

VERB

取决(于);有赖(于)

If you say that one thing depends on another, you mean that the first thing will be affected or determined by the second.

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VERB

依靠;依赖

If you depend on someone or something, you need them in order to be able to survive physically, financially, or emotionally.

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VERB

指望;信赖

If you can depend on a person, organization, or law, you know that they will support you or help you when you need them.

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VERB

视情形而定;看情况

You use depend in expressions such as it depends to indicate that you cannot give a clear answer to a question because the answer will be affected or determined by other factors.

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PREP-PHRASE

取决于;根据;由…决定

You use depending on when you are saying that something varies according to the circumstances mentioned.

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英汉词典释义

vi.

依靠, 依赖

信赖, 相信, 确信, 指望

决定于, 视…而定, 取决于

英英词典释义

Verb

1. be contingent upon (something that is ellided);

2. have faith or confidence in;

行业词典

计算机： 随而定，取决于；