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self-dependent

/dih-pen-duhnt/US // dɪˈpɛn dənt //UK // (dɪˈpɛndənt) //

自力更生,自立,自我依赖,自立的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : relying on someone or something else for aid, support, etc.
    • : conditioned or determined by something else; contingent: Our trip is dependent on the weather.
    • : subordinate; subject: a dependent territory.
    • : Grammar. not used in isolation; used only in connection with other forms. In I walked out when the bell rang, when the bell rang is a dependent clause.Compare independent, main.
    • : hanging down; pendent.
    • : Mathematics. having values determined by one or more independent variables. having solutions that are identical to those of another equation or to those of a set of equations.
    • : Statistics. not statistically independent.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who depends on or needs someone or something for aid, support, favor, etc.
    • : a child, spouse, parent, or certain other relative to whom one contributes all or a major amount of necessary financial support: She listed two dependents on her income-tax form.
    • : Archaic. a subordinate part.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • We see detoxing as a path to transcendence, a symbol of modern urban virtue and self-transformation through abstinence.

  • Stephanie Giorgio, a classical musician, credits The Class for helping her cope with anxiety, focus, fear, and self-doubt.

  • For someone with anorexia, self-starvation makes them feel better.

  • I went into the audition as Fericito, the Venezuelan percussionist, and then I did a self-defense expert.

  • Its graceful hotels and beautiful restaurants are totally dependent on the tourist trade.

  • Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

  • Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.

  • At present, Louis was too self-absorbed by the struggles within him, to look deep into what was passing around him.

  • But to wave this discourse of Heathens, how many self-contradicting principles are there held among Christians?

  • Jean grinned and dribbled self-consciously, and showed his two little teeth to the proudest father in the world.