dependent
/dɪˈpɛndənt/ 名词 C1中文： 扶养者
- A person who relies on another for support or sustenance, particularly financial support. · With two children and an ailing mother, she had three dependents in all.
- An element in phrase or clause structure that is not the head. Includes complements, modifiers and determiners.
- The aorist subjunctive or subjunctive perfective: a form of a verb not used independently but preceded by a particle to form the negative or a tense form. Found in Greek and in the Gaelic languages.
- dependent (origination), in Buddhism, the idea that the existence of everything is conditional and dependent on a cause, and that nothing happens fortuitously or by chance.
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But she was not solely dependent on it.
Your conduct would be quite as dependent on chance as that of any man I know; and if, as you were mounting your horse, a friend were to say, ‘Bingley, you had better stay till next week,’ you would probably do it--you would probably not go--and, at another word, might stay a month.”
“Our habits of expense make us too dependent, and there are not many in my rank of life who can afford to marry without some attention to money.”
Her home and her housekeeping, her parish and her poultry, and all their dependent concerns, had not yet lost their charms.
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