Dependent
[dɪ'pɛndənt]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) addicted to a drug .
(adj.) contingent on something else .
(adj.) relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed; 'dependent children'; 'dependent on moisture' .
(adj.) (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence; 'a subordinate (or dependent) clause functions as a noun or adjective or adverb within a sentence' .
整理:泰勒--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf.
(a.) Relying on, or subject to, something else for support; not able to exist, or sustain itself, or to perform anything, without the will, power, or aid of something else; not self-sustaining; contingent or conditioned; subordinate; -- often with on or upon; as, dependent on God; dependent upon friends.
(n.) One who depends; one who is sustained by another, or who relies on another for support of favor; a hanger-on; a retainer; as, a numerous train of dependents.
(n.) That which depends; corollary; consequence.
校對:迈拉
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Hanging, resting, contingent, trusting, relying, subject, relative
ANT:Independent, irrelative, irrespective, absolute, free
手打:奥利
娱乐性解釋/意思：
adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears.
加勒特錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- I must either wrong my three dear girls or my venerable father, who is entirely dependent on me, in the Vale of Taunton; or some one. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The preservation of food is also dependent on ammonia, which produces the refrigerating effect in the numerous cold storage houses and artificial ice plants in this country. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- I entirely disapprove of your doing anything for him, my dear sir, which is not dependent on his own exertions and good conduct. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Mr. Ferrars, I believe, is entirely dependent on his mother. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- It trebled the output of grain, and the welfare of the people has proven largely dependent on their food supply. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- But continuity of the life process is not dependent upon the prolongation of the existence of any one individual. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- You forget your dependent position. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- God has made us so that we must be mutually dependent. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- But this is a secondary consideration, and dependent on the preceding notions of justice and property. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- Though they lived at a distance from his house, they were equally dependent upon him as his retainers who lived in it. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- My pride rose against this barefaced way of pointing out the contrast my married life was to present to my then dependent and inferior position. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- In the summer of 1911, prolonged drought in North Carolina lowered the rivers to such an extent that towns dependent upon them suffered greatly. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- You might say all that to almost any one who you knew lived as a solitary dependent in a great house. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Socially the distinction has to do with the part of life which is dependent upon authority and that where individuals are free to advance. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Would you go and be dependent on your friends? 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- All animals--and man is no exception--begin life as dependents. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- For he loved to give pleasures to his dependents and to those poorer than himself. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- He passed lightly over the most serious faults, because he told himself that, if he had done his part, his dependents had not fallen into them. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
整理:维维安