| 词组 | depend |
| 释义 | depend In most senses depend is followed by on or upon: • This is the way it goes with the writers: they resent you to the degree that they depend on you —Jay Mclnerney, Bright Lights, Big City, 1984 • If I whimpered about having to get up early in the morning, I could depend on her to say, "The early bird gets the worm." —Russell Baker, Growing Up, 1982 • ... it was, rather, that no one could depend upon them —George F. Kennan, New Yorker, 1 May 1971 • ... steam from 5 to 10 minutes, depending upon the type and age of the beans —James Beard, American Cookery, 1972 • ... "the sick man of Europe" was, or (depending on one's outlook) is, Turkey —Simon 1980 When depend means "hang down"—a live but not very common use—it often is followed by from: • ... a watch chain depended from his pocket —Paul Theroux, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 22 July 1979 • ... in the painting of the half melted watches depending limply from a tree —Lewis Mumford, New Republic, 5 Apr. 1954 This sense is occasionally figurative: • ... the painting of the "Redeemer in Glory" ... depends at second hand from Raphael's "Vision of Ezechial" —Times Literary Supp., 30 Mar. 1967 Depend is also used absolutely, though chiefly in conversation: • In the timehonored phrase, it depends —Irving Kolodin, Saturday Rev., 11 Dec. 1954 • "Oh well ... I'm not sure. It rather depends." — Daphne du Maurier, Ladies' Home Jour., August 1971 Many commentators point out that in speech this construction can be followed by a clause with no on or upon intervening, as in "It depends how many times you've seen it" or "It all depends whether it rains." We have no evidence of these conversational patterns in ordinary discursive prose. |
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