查单词 · 学外语

精品英语词典

首页dependdepend考试真题

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

vi. 依赖，依靠；取决于；相信，信赖

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.