dependent是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 依靠的， 依赖的， 从属的； 随…而定的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was dependent upon him for food and clean linen.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nastasia did not reject all this, she even loved her com-forts and luxuries, but, strangely enough, never became, in the least degree, dependent upon them, and always gave the impression that she could do just as well without them.
-- I am not dependent upon his hospitality, and upon his house; I have my own family.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Even so; sucking babes are not more dependent on those who guide them than we who are of larger growth, and who may now be said to possess the stature without the knowl-edge of men.
-- He was strongly tempted to address the young chief, and demand his opinion of their progress; but the calm and dignified demeanor of the native induced him to believe, that, like himself, the other was wholly dependent on the sagacity and intelligence of the seniors of the party.
-- It was the prevalent opinion, however, that they had been influenced by veneration for the ancient treaty, that had once made them dependent on the Six Nations for military protection, and now rendered them reluctant to encounter their former masters.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But how strange it was that the creative instinct should seize upon this dull stockbroker, to his own ruin, perhaps, and to the misfortune of such as were dependent on him; and yet no stranger than the way in which the spirit of God has seized men, powerful and rich, pursuing them with stubborn vigilance till at last, conquered, they have abandoned the joy of the world and the love of women for the painful austerities of the cloister.
-- "You're dependent on others for everything in existence.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He said a word or two of leave-taking; but Miss Wade barely inclined her head, and Harriet, with the assumed humiliation of an abject dependent and serf (but not without defiance for all that), made as if she were too low to notice or to be noticed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Would you go and be dependent on your friends?'
-- He was still the same gentle, attached, affectionate creature that he had been when pain and suffering had wasted his strength, and when he was dependent for every slight attention, and comfort on those who tended him.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 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.'
-- Her home and her housekeeping, her par-ish and her poultry, and all their dependent concerns, had not yet lost their charms.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A more reasonable cause might be found in the dependent situation which forbade the indulgence of his affection.
-- Mrs. Smith has this morning exercised the privilege of riches upon a poor dependent cousin, by sending me on business to London.
-- He is, moreover, aware that she DOES disapprove the connection, he dares not therefore at present confess to her his engagement with Marianne, and he feels himself obliged, from his dependent situation, to give into her schemes, and absent himself from Devonshire for a while.
-- Mr. Ferrars, I believe, is entirely dependent on his mother."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We are more dependent upon these things than is often thought.
-- Hurstwood reasoned, when he neared the last ten dollars, that he had better keep a little pocket change and not become wholly dependent for car-fare, shaves, and the like; so when this sum was still in his hand he announced himself as penniless.
-- Having no one dependent upon her, she began to buy pretty clothes and pleasing trinkets, to eat well, and to ornament her room.
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