depend upon

英 [dɪˈpend əˈpɒn]

美 [dɪˈpend əˈpɑːn]

依赖，依靠（说明）depend on（upon）不用于进行体。; 相信；信赖; 随…而定（说明）depend on（upon）作此解时，不用于被动结构，也不用于进行体。

英英释义

verb

• put trust in with confidence
  1. she is someone you can really rely on when times get rough
  2. you can rely on his discretion
  Synonym:depend onrely onrely upon
• be contingent on
  1. The outcomes rides on the results of the election
  2. Your grade will depends on your homework
  Synonym:depend ondevolve onrideturn onhinge onhinge upon

双语例句

• Others depend upon me and I need the money.
  别人依靠我活着，而我需要资金。
• APIs depend upon providing an eminently attractive and usable option for developers to adopt.
  API依靠于为开发者提供一个突出的吸引力和可用的选项，因此才会被开发者采用。
• This will ruin the country, depend upon it.
  请相信，这会败了那个国家。
• Your success will largely depend upon what you do and how you do it.
  你能否成功将首要取决于你做什么和怎样做。
• Molecular genetics came to depend upon studies of the structure and function of DNA, RNA and protein.
  分子遗传学的形成仰赖于DNA，RNA和蛋白质的结构与功能的研究成果。
• Thus, employees have an interest in the economic performance of the business because their jobs depend upon it.
  因此，员工关注企业的经济表现因为他们的工作依赖其经济表现。
• In this model the arrangement of bonds around the central atom is considered to depend upon how many valence-shell electron pairs.
  在这个模型中，认为围绕中心原子的化学键的排列取决于价层中电子对的数量。
• I suppose that would depend upon what you mean.
  我认为问题将取决于你的问题的本意到底是什么。
• Depend upon it, he will let you down some day.
  等着瞧吧，总有一天他会拆你的台。
• You may depend upon her arriving on time.
  你可以相信她会准时到来。