dependent
adjective OPAL W
/dɪˈpendənt/
/dɪˈpendənt/
依靠的;依赖的 - a woman with several dependent children
一个女人带着几个未自立的孩子 - dependent on/upon somebody/something You can't be dependent on your parents all your life.
你不可能一辈子靠父母生活。 - dependent on/upon somebody/something for something The festival is heavily dependent on sponsorship for its success.
这次节日庆祝活动成功与否,在很大程度上就看赞助了。
- 74% of people in the survey were at least partially dependent on their cars.
被调查的人中有 74% 至少部份地依赖私家车。 - Jane had never met anyone so utterly dependent.
简之前还从来没有遇到过如此依赖别人的人。 - Many of the patients are closely dependent on staff for day-to-day emotional support.
患者中很多人都非常依赖医务人员每天给他们情感上的支持。 - Modern science is critically dependent on high-performance computing.
现代科学严重依赖高性能计算。 - Small companies are dependent upon the local economy.
小公司依赖本土经济。 - The country is heavily dependent on oil and gas imports.
这个国家严重依赖石油和天然气进口。 - The land is dry and wholly dependent on irrigation.
土地干旱,完全靠灌溉。 - The various organs of the body do not function in isolation but are mutually dependent.
身体的不同器官不是独立运作而是互相依存的。
Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- feel
- become
- …
- closely
- deeply
- greatly
- …
- on
- upon
- a woman with several dependent children
- dependent on/upon something addicted to something (= unable to stop taking or using it)
有瘾的 - to be dependent on drugs
有毒瘾
- to be dependent on drugs
- dependent on/upon something (formal) affected or decided by something
受…的影响;取决于 - A child's development is dependent on many factors.
孩子的成长受多种因素影响。 - The price is dependent on how many extras you choose.
价格取决于你挑选额外收费项目的多少。
- Your access to a good education is largely dependent on where you live.
你是否能受到良好的教育很大程度上取决于你的居住地点。 - The amount of benefit you receive is entirely dependent on the amount you have paid in.
你收益多少完全取决于你存入的金额。
Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- strongly
- entirely
- fully
- …
- A child's development is dependent on many factors.
- dependent on something (grammar
) (of a clause, phrase or word) secondary to another clause, phrase or word语法 从属的: 从属于另一个从句,短语或单词- The word ‘because’ forces the clause to be dependent on some other main clause.
“因为”这个词迫使子句依赖于其他主子句。
- The word ‘because’ forces the clause to be dependent on some other main clause.
词源late Middle English dependant ‘hanging down’, from Old French, present participle of dependre, from Latin dependere, from de- ‘down’ + pendere ‘hang’. The spelling change in the 16th cent. was due to association with the Latin participial stem dependent-.