Dependent

(adj.) addicted to a drug .

(adj.) contingent on something else .

(adj.) relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed; 'dependent children'; 'dependent on moisture' .

(adj.) (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence; 'a subordinate (or dependent) clause functions as a noun or adjective or adverb within a sentence' .

整理:泰勒

• I must either wrong my three dear girls or my venerable father, who is entirely dependent on me, in the Vale of Taunton; or some one. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The preservation of food is also dependent on ammonia, which produces the refrigerating effect in the numerous cold storage houses and artificial ice plants in this country. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• I entirely disapprove of your doing anything for him, my dear sir, which is not dependent on his own exertions and good conduct. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Mr. Ferrars, I believe, is entirely dependent on his mother. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• It trebled the output of grain, and the welfare of the people has proven largely dependent on their food supply. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• But continuity of the life process is not dependent upon the prolongation of the existence of any one individual. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• You forget your dependent position. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• God has made us so that we must be mutually dependent. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• But this is a secondary consideration, and dependent on the preceding notions of justice and property. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Though they lived at a distance from his house, they were equally dependent upon him as his retainers who lived in it. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• My pride rose against this barefaced way of pointing out the contrast my married life was to present to my then dependent and inferior position. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• In the summer of 1911, prolonged drought in North Carolina lowered the rivers to such an extent that towns dependent upon them suffered greatly. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• You might say all that to almost any one who you knew lived as a solitary dependent in a great house. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Socially the distinction has to do with the part of life which is dependent upon authority and that where individuals are free to advance. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Would you go and be dependent on your friends? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• All animals--and man is no exception--begin life as dependents. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• For he loved to give pleasures to his dependents and to those poorer than himself. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• He passed lightly over the most serious faults, because he told himself that, if he had done his part, his dependents had not fallen into them. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.

整理:维维安