| 单词 | depend upon it |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdepend upon it a. To rely in mind, count, or reckon confidently on, upon (†of, etc.). (Now chiefly in colloquial phrase depend upon it, used parenthetically.) ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > trust [verb (intransitive)] > rely on wrethea1225 treousec1275 resta1382 to stand upon ——a1393 hang1393 lengc1440 arrest1523 reckon1547 ground1551 stay1560 depend1563 repose1567 rely1574 count1642 to make stay upon1682 allot1816 tie1867 1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Faith ii, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) ii. 40 Depending (or hanging) only of the help and trust that they had in God. 1622 (?a1513) W. Dunbar Poems (Reidpeth) (1998) I. 243 And on the prince depend with heuinlie feir. 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 275 The superstitious, who depended upon some supernaturall helps. 1693 tr. J. Le Clerc Mem. Count Teckely iv. 60 If so be they had been defeated, one might have depended upon seeing the Affairs of the Ottaman Empire restored. 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 53 Faith, Miss, depend upon it, I'll give you as good as you bring. 1745 E. Haywood Female Spectator (1748) 319 It may be depended on that..we shall advertise. 1748 Acct. Voy. for Discov. North-west Passage I. 30 If they can eat Seal, there is such a Plenty of them..that they may depend upon Food be their Voyage ever so long. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 496 He could no longer depend on the protection of his master. 1885 G. Allen Babylon I. v. 78 Depend upon it, Churchill, over-education's a great error. < as lemmas |
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