depend 的定义
- 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.
depend 近义词
count on, rely upon
be contingent on
更多depend例句
- 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.