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depend

/dih-pend/US // dɪˈpɛnd //UK // (dɪˈpɛnd) //

依赖,依靠,依赖于,依赖性

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to rely; place trust: You may depend on the accuracy of the report.
    • : to rely for support, maintenance, help, etc.: Children depend on their parents.
    • : to be conditioned or contingent: His success here depends upon effort and ability.
    • : to be undetermined or pending: I may go to Europe or I may not, it all depends.
    • : Grammar. to be subordinate to another linguistic form in the same construction; to form a part of a construction other than the head.
    • : to hang down; be suspended: The chandelier depends from the ceiling of the ballroom.

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Examples

  • There is something to be said for my colleague Barry Svrluga’s notion that continuing to play the anthem nightly gives people the chance to stand with hand-on-heart or kneel, depending on how they feel.

  • If your site depends on Google Images for traffic, you may have already noticed changes to your traffic back in November.

  • Their survival depended on working together, and over many difficult hours, they took turns saving each other.

  • It depends on the views, and where they are on the political scale.

  • This pot may grow or shrink during the game depending on your ongoing wins or losses.

  • All of these far future speculations, of course, depend on a series of “ifs.”

  • Experts agree that much will depend on the measures undertaken both by the United States and Cuba.

  • After all, smaller developing nations like Cameroon often depend on trade with and aid from the West.

  • Attacks are underreported and surveys often depend on what questions were asked and who responded.

  • Two-thirds of the 22 million people in West Africa depend on farming to live.

  • This provided for, I will protect myself from future insult, depend upon it.

  • Judge: Now, Sir, your punishment shall depend on the shortness and correctness of your answers.

  • Write to me by all means whenever anything strikes you, and you may always depend on having my best advice.

  • Social betterment must depend at every stage on the force of public spirit and public morality that inspires it.

  • That must depend in every case upon the particular circumstances of the community concerned.

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