1.depend on [upon]+某人或某物
Whether we’ll go camping depends on the weather. 我们是否去野营要看天气。
I haven’t got a car, so I have to depend on the buses. 我没有汽车，所以我得乘公共汽车。
有时可在某人或某物后用介词 for。如：
We depend on the radio for news. 我们靠收音机听新闻。
Children depend on their parents for food and clothing. 儿童的衣食靠父母。
2. depend on [upon]+某人或某物+不定式或动名词
I’m depending on you to do the work. 我指望你做这工作。
You can never depend on him [his] arriving on time. 你决不能指望他能准时到达。
You can’t depend on the train arriving on time. 千万不要认为火车能正点到达。
3. depend on [upon]+从句
Our success depends on whether everyone works hard ornot. 我们的成功取决于每个人是否努力。
The amount you pay depends on where you live. 你付多少钱要看你住什么地方。
在 It (all) depends on [upon]+从句中，介词 on, upon 有时可省略(主要见于口语中)。如：
It all depends how you do it. 那要看你怎么办。
It depends (on) whether you can afford it. 这要看你是否买得起。
注：depend on [upon] 后不接 that-从句(此时须用 it)。如：
You may depend on it that he will join our club. /You may
depend on him to join our club. 你可以指望他加入我们的俱乐部。
4. 口语中说 It (all) depends. /That depends. 意为“那要看情况”。如：
A:Are you going too? 你也去吗?
B:That depends. 那要看情况。
I want to leave early but it all depends. 我想早点离开，但那要看情况。
扩展资料:
1. Does everyone change the way they talk to some degree depending on whom they are talking to? (TPO6-C2)
是不是每个人都会在跟人聊天的时候都会不同程度的改变他们的说话方式？
2. Depending on the stresses on the glacier, the ice crystals within it reorganize. (TPO7-L4)
取决于冰川的压力，冰晶需要重新组织构架。
3. Now, back then, their lives depended on the natural resources of the forests, especially the birch tree. (TPO7-L3)
当时他们的生活主要依赖森林中的自然资源，尤其是白桦树。
4. I see. Well, anyway...as I am saying, your options depend on what your priorities are and on exactly what you want to study.(TPO36-C1)
我明白了。无论如何，我说，你的决定要根据你自己的偏好，看你自己到底想学什么。
5. These factors help drive the evolution of plants and their pollinators, both of which depend on this balanced and delicate relationship. (TPO34-L3)
这些因素推动者植物和他们授粉者的进化，这两者都依赖着这种平衡和微妙的关系。
6. Many plants depend on wind for dispersal and produce abundant quantities of small, relatively short-lived seeds to compensate for the fact that wind is not always a reliable means If reaching the appropriate type of habitat. (TPO32-P1)
很多植物依靠风去传播并且产生大量的小且寿命相对较短的种子来抵消这样一种风并不总是能可靠地到达一个适合的栖息地的事实。
7. When several individuals of the same species or of several different species depend on the same limited resource, a situation may arise that is referred to as competition. (TPO29-P2)
当同一物种的不同个体或不同的物种都依靠同一有限资源时，这种情况往往会引发成所谓的竞争。
8. However, in many places (for example, California, Hawaii, the Philippines, Japan, Mexico, the rift valleys of Africa)the resource is potentially so large that its future will depend on the economics of production. (TPO21-P1)
不过，在很多地区（例如加州、夏威夷、菲律宾、日本、墨西哥、非洲的裂谷），这种能源可能非常可观，它的前景将取决于经济的生产。
9. I think it'll depend on what type of work you do in the excavation, but I imagine we can arrange something. (TPO3-C2)
我想这要取决于你在挖掘工作中会做什么类型的工作，但我能想象我们可以安排一些。