(verb.) be contingent upon (something that is elided); 'That depends'.
安尼塔整理
双语例句
And I am glad of another thing, and that is, that of course you know you may depend upon my keeping it and always so far deserving it. 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.
Depend upon it, they will melt away. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
Her decision, she says, will much depend on what you can tell her. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
If my aunt's maid and the other woman have spoken the truth, you may depend upon it the tradesman did meet her. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
For this reason, they have to depend solely upon nitrogenous compounds which are present in the soil and are soluble in water. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.
No good, you may depend on it. 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.
From the angle of statecraft the future of the movement may be said to depend upon the wise use of this raw and scattered power. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
That depends,' said Mrs. Bardell, approaching the duster very near to Mr. Pickwick's elbow which was planted on the table. 查尔斯·狄更斯.匹克威克外传.
I almost dread to-morrow--so much depends on my discretion and self-control. 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.
Much depends on the proper consistency of the ink. 威廉K.戴维.智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
But in many cases victory depends not so much on general vigour, but on having special weapons, confined to the male sex. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
Now, said the physician, we must turn all these creatures out; all depends on his being kept quiet. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托.汤姆叔叔的小屋.
So that the progress of future inventions depends on the outcome of the great economic, industrial, and social battles which are now looming on the pathway of the future. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
The length of time in boiling depends upon the depth of color desired. 威廉K.戴维.智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
They were weary, besides, of humouring the people, and of depending upon their caprice for a subsistence. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
These are of irregular cylindrical form, depending on the form of the tusk’s circumference. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
For years the nations of Europe have been depending to a great extent upon supplies of nitrate of soda obtained from Chile, in South America. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
He did not know but what I was in the rear of the enemy and depending on him to open a new base of supplies for the troops with me. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
These devices were essentially toys, depending for their successful operation (as is the case with motion pictures) upon a physiological phenomenon known as persistence of vision. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
Behind her, depending from the roof upon rawhide thongs, and stretching entirely across the cave, was a row of human skeletons. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯.火星公主.
These plates made up of both line work and halftones are known as combination plates or double-prints, depending upon the way they are produced. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
Its completion depended on others. 简·奥斯汀.傲慢与偏见.
Obviously, as the cylinder was turned, the needle followed a spiral path whose pitch depended upon that of the feed screw. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
I had quite depended upon meeting you there. 简·奥斯汀.理智与情感.
Tycho Brahe had a great reverence for Copernicus, but he did not accept his planetary system; and he fe lt that advance in astronomy depended on painstaking observation. 李贝.西洋科学史.
Here I felt that my professional existence depended on not holding my tongue. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
His real use, his real importance depended upon his individual quality. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
But it depended upon Steerforth; and he did it with such address, that in a few minutes we were all as easy and as happy as it was possible to be. 查尔斯·狄更斯.大卫·科波菲尔.