depend
vi. 靠, 视...而定, 信赖
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教材释义与例句
依赖，依靠；取决于；相信，信赖
If you depend on someone or something, you need them in order to be able to survive physically, financially, or emotionally
He depended on his writing for his income.
他靠写作谋生。
释义与例句
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1.
To be contingent or conditioned; to have something as a necessary condition
不及物We would like to go skiing, but it depends on the amount of snow.
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2.
To trust; to have confidence; to rely.
信任
信赖
不及物we should all be able to depend on the word or assurance of our friends
we depend on the mailman to come at the usual time.
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3.
To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above, especially in heraldry, where a badge, decoration, or element is suspended from another part of an achievement of arms.
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4.
To be pending; to be undetermined or undecided.
古体a cause depending in court
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5.
To cause to be contingent or dependent on; to set as a necessity.
及物
词汇关系
词源
From Middle English dependen, from Old French dependre and Latin dependeō, from Latin dē- + pendeō (“to hang”). In this sense, displaced native Old English hangian (“to hang or depend”).
来源：wiktionary