He could be depended on to take a moderate position on most of the key issues.

可以相信，他会在大多数关键问题上持温和态度。

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Although these devices performed satisfactorily around the Mediterranean, they could not always be depended on in the cloudy and often freezing weather of northern Europe.

尽管这些装置在地中海周围运行良好，但在北欧多云且经常寒冷的天气里，它们并不总是能派上用场。

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He is a man to be depended upon.

他这人靠得住。

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I would be able to predict their size, because how far they moved depended on how big they were.

我还应当能估计它的大小,因为它能跑多远取决于它的大小

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India has a strong desire to not to be a service depended on economy.

印度非常渴望降低其服务业,对经济的依赖性。

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I was afterwards told and he ordered that I be kept abed, that I be kept quiet, that my very life depended upon it.

之后觉察到医生来了，A，doctor，was，called—,他要我躺在床上，静养，不然性命不保。

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Rather, they are party loyalists who can be depended on to automatically vote for the candidate of their party.

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"He was known as a warrior, the invincible patriarch who could be depended on to play through his injuries, " the suit said.

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Lesser respect, fewer jobs, lower pay, no political power, burdened with children and dependent upon men, many of whom could not be depended upon.

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