则理解成依赖依靠就更好一点。

Look to here equals to depend on or rely on.

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农民依靠种植作物为生，而牧民则依赖于驯养牲畜。

While agriculturalists rely on domesticated plants, pastoralists rely on domesticated animals.

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几千年来，他们开始减少对野外狩猎和采集的依赖，而更多地依靠自己饲养的动物和播种的庄稼。

Over thousands of years, they began to depend less on what could be hunted or gathered from the wild, and more on animals they had raised and crops they had sown.

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