首页英语词典dependdepend的意思

depend

英 [dɪ'pend] 美[dɪ'pɛnd]

英英释义同义词辨析词组搭配考试真题实用场景例句

近义词confide trust rely

vi. 依赖，依靠；取决于；相信，信赖

CET4TEM4考研CET6中高频词核心词汇

词态变化

第三人称单数: depends;过去式: depended;过去分词: depended;现在分词: depending;

中文词源

depend 依赖，依靠

de-, 向下，离开。-pend, 悬挂，词源同pendulum, append. 即悬挂点，引申义依靠。

英英释意

1. be contingent upon (something that is ellided);: "That depends"

2. have faith or confidence in;: "you can count on me to help you any time"; "Look to your friends for support"; "You can bet on that!"; "Depend on your family in times of crisis"

英文词源

depend: depend: [15] To depend on something is literally to ‘hang down’ from it. The word comes, via Old French dependre, from Latin dēpendēre, a compound verb formed from the prefix dē- ‘down’ and pendēre ‘hang’ (source of English pendant, pendulum, penthouse, and a host of derivatives from appendix to suspend). Its original literal sense survives in English, just, as a conscious archaism, but essentially the metaphorical extensions ‘be contingent’ (echoed in the parallel use of hang on) and ‘rely’ have taken the verb over.
=> appendix, pendent, pendulum, penthouse, suspend
depend (v.): early 15c., "to be attached to as a condition or cause," a figurative use, from Middle French dependre, literally "to hang from, hang down," from Latin dependere "to hang from, hang down; be dependent on, be derived," from de- "from, down" (see de-) + pendere "to hang, be suspended" (see pendant). Related: Depended; depending.

同义词辨析

depend, rely

这两个动词后跟on(upon)，均有"依赖，依靠"之意。

depend：侧重指因自身能力不足或缺乏自信心而依靠他人或物给予帮助或支持。

rely：通常包含着以前的经验证明对方是能依赖的意思。

考试真题

Its production depends too much on technologyThey enjoyed cooking as well as eating.

How a resident feels depends on an interaction between themselves and the care facility they live in.

If you are a graduate student, you may depend on your adviser for many things, including help with improving grades, acquiring financial support, forming an examining committee and getting letters of recommendation.

One argument that you tend to hear a lot from the pro-tipping crowd seems logical enough: the service is better when waiters depend on tips, presumably because they see a benefit to successfully veiling their contempt for you.

Likewise, theimpactof this warming will be very different depending on where you are—coastal areas must worry about rising sea levels, while Siberia and northern Canada may become more habitable (宜居的) andappealingfor humans than these areas are now.

Hunger levels depend on one's consumption of calories.

In a 2011 study, for instance, people who drank the same 380-calorie(卡路里) milkshake on two separate occasions produced different levels of hunger-related hormones (荷尔蒙), depending on whether the shake's label said it contained 620 or 140 calories.

This enables him to reinterpret British cuisine depending on what is avail able in the local markets.

Again, in Colombian, a speaker of English would have to know that when he indicates height he most choose between different gestures depending on whether he is referring to a human being or an animal.

It depends on which student you are talking about.

They depend severely on family members.

It depends on the working hours.

And the school's success or failure depends on their decisions and their behavior

They may have nobody to depend on in the future.

But we must also consider the impact of the new technology on those who now depend on driving for their livelihoods.

How students ultimately handle tests may depend on their personal test-taking abilities.

We found that the number of bacteria transferred to either kind of food didn't depend much on how long the food was in contact with the contaminated surface——whether for a few seconds or for a whole minute.

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.

But however long it takes, the technology has the potential to change our transportation systems and our cities, for better or for worse, depending on how the transformation is regulated.

But just now how much warmer it will get depends on how deeply countries cut carbon emissions.

But soon, the gold that Dawson depended on had all been found.

Depending on the kind of race you plan to enter, you can set up a timetable for the remaining weeks before the race.

Depending on the type of allergies and/ or dietary requirements, an extra charge may be made for providing special food.

Depending on which role you choose, you could help to increase a community's access to safe drinking water, or help to protect valuable local cultures.

Frozen bananas will last several weeks, depending on their ripeness and the temperature of the freezer.

How much sleep you need depends a lot on your age.

Inspections were a regular part of lighthouse living, and a keeper's reputation depended on results.

It depending on NASA Hunch high school class, like the one science teachers Gene Gordon and Donna Himmelberg lead at Fairport high school in Fairport, New York.

Ocean colour varies from green to blue, depending on the type and concentration of phytoplankton.

Papa was thinking about what was said, as if the salvation of the world would depend upon it.

We're all well aware of how dressing up in different ways can make us feel more attractive, sporty or professional, depending on the clothes we wear.

Some experts think reading is the fundamental skill upon which school education depends.

The deadlines and what you need to apply depend on the program.

The effects of gossip vary depending on the situation.

The shade of the forest trees provides a home for birds and other special that depend on the trees' flowers and fruits.

Thinking hard about it, I came to realize that my team might not be the number one team in georgia, but they were depending on me.

Thus, the division, on the whole, depends on the reader.

Where we use sound and sight to communicate, ants depend primarily on pheromone, chemicals sent out by individuals and smelled or tasted by fellow members of their colony.

This means that a DNA database may differ depending on the company that processes the results.

Yet these creatures are members of the biotic community and, if its stability depends on its integrity, they are entitled to continuance.

How we read a given text also depends to some extent on our particular interest in reading it.

The sharp hit to growth predicted around the world and in the UK could lead to a decline in the everyday services we depend on for our well-being and for growth.

And interest groups ranging from postal unions to greeting-card makers exert self-interested pressure on the USPS's ultimate overseer-Congress-insisting that whatever else happens to the Postal Service, aspects of the status quo they depend on get protected.

And interest groups ranging from postal unions to greeting-card makers exert self-interested pressure on the USPS's ultimate overseer-Congress一insisting that whatever else happens to the Postal Service, aspects of the status quo they depend on get protect

But this seems to be the irony of office speak: Everyone makes fun of it, but managers love it, companies depend on it, and regular people willingly absorb it.

In theory, the success of an applicant should not depend on the few others chosen randomly for interview during the same day, but Dr Simonsohn suspected the truth was otherwise.

You work with them every day and you depend on them just as they depend on you.

词组搭配

depending on

according to

依据，根据

makes 8–10 burgers (depending on size).
做八到十个汉堡包（依大小而定）。
[with clause]the article sneered or just condescended, &B{depending on how} you read it.
这篇文章不是在嘲笑就是在摆架子，就看你如何解读了。

it (或that) (all) depends

used to express uncertainty or qualification in answering a question

这要看情况而定

How many people use each screen? It all depends.
每个屏幕有多少人使用？这要看情况。

实用场景例句

Starting salary varies from £26 000 to £30 500, depending on experience.: 起薪为26 000至30 500英镑不等，依个人经验而定。

He either resigned or was sacked, depending on who you talk to.: 他或是辞职了，或是被辞退了，这要看你跟谁讲了。

‘Is he coming? ’ ‘That depends. He may not have the time. ’: “他来吗？”“那要看情况。他不一定有时间。”

I don't know if we can help─it all depends.: 我不知道我们能不能帮上忙，一切都得看情况而定。

I might not go. It depends how tired I am.: 我不一定去。这要看我累不累。

‘Your job sounds fun. ’ ‘It depends what you mean by ‘fun ’. ’: “你的工作听起来很有乐趣。”“这就要看你说的‘乐趣’是什么意思了。”

I shouldn't be too late. But it depends if the traffic's bad.: 我应该不会太迟。不过这取决于交通是否拥挤了。

He was the sort of person you could depend on.: 他这个人你是可以信赖的。

He knew he could depend upon her to deal with the situation.: 他知道可以依靠她来应付这种局面。

Depend upon it (= you can be sure) we won't give up.: 请相信，我们决不会放弃。

Can we depend on you coming in on Sunday?: 我们能指望你星期天来参加吗？

(formal)You can depend on his coming in on Sunday.: 你放心，他星期天一定来参加。

(ironic)You can depend on her to be (= she always is) late.: 她保准迟到。

The community depends on the shipping industry for its survival.: 这个地区靠航运业维持生活。

I don't want to depend too much on my parents.: 我不想过度依靠父母。

Does the quality of teaching depend on class size?: 教学质量取决于每个班的人数吗？

It would depend on the circumstances.: 这要视情况而定。

Whether we need more food depends on how many people turn up.: 我们是否需要更多的食物，这要视到场人数而定。

The cooking time needed depends on the size of the potato...: 所需的烹饪时间取决于土豆的大小。

What happened later would depend on his talk with De Solina...: 日后之事将有赖于他与德索利纳的谈话结果。

They may hate what he does but their survival depends on him...: 他们或许讨厌他的营生，但他们要想活下来必须依靠他。

He depended on his writing for his income...: 他靠写作赚取收入。

'You can depend on me,' Cross assured him.: “你可以信赖我，”克罗斯向他保证。

'But how long can you stay in the house?' – 'I don't know. It depends.'...: “但你能在这所房子里呆多久呢？”——“我不知道，这要看情况。”

It all depends on your definition of punk, doesn't it?: “这全视乎你对朋克摇滚乐的定义，不是吗？”

I tend to have a different answer, depending on the family...: 根据家庭的不同，我往往会给出不同的答案。

People in the rest of the country celebrated independence even later, depending on when the news of Congress's action reached them.: 该国其他地区的人们庆祝独立的时间甚至更晚，这要取决于有关国会决定的消息何时传到了他们那里。

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

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

depend

词态变化

中文词源

英英释意

英文词源

同义词辨析

考试真题

词组搭配

depending on

it (或that) (all) depends

实用场景例句

考试词汇

频率词汇

分类词汇

单词首字母

汉语字典查询

词语词性