英和和英

発音

• IPA: /ɹɪˈlaɪ/
• 韻: -aɪ

動詞

rely (third-person singular simple present relies, present participle relying, simple past and past participle relied)

1. (intransitive, with on or upon, formerly also with in) To trust; to have confidence in.
   • 1993, Flying, volume 120, page 73:

     I relied on "George" and "Fred"—the autopilot and the flight director—to fly the airplane while I worked my way through […]

   • 2004, Stephen Walther, ASP.NET unleashed:

     Cookieless sessions enable you to take advantage of session state without relying on browser cookies.

   • 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel, Huerta Memorial Hospital, Visiting Ashley:

     Shepard: You can't rely on anyone. Sounds harsh, but it's true.
     Shepard: It comes down to doing what you think is right--and damn everyone else.

   • 2012 May 26, Phil McNulty, “Norway 0-1 England”, in BBC Sport:

     Hodgson also has Wayne Rooney to call on once he has served a two-match suspension at the start of the tournament - and it is abundantly clear England will rely as heavily as ever on his ability to shape the outcome of important games.

   • 2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly):

     A “moving platform” scheme […] is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:rely.
2. (intransitive, with on or upon) To depend; to be dependent upon.

   The city relies on the subway system.

   • 2018, Michael L. Morrison, ‎Amanda D. Rodewald, ‎Gary Voelker, “Flight and Locomotion”, in Ornithology: Foundation, Analysis, and Application, page 299:

     […] recall that birds that rely more on their legs for foraging tend to rely less on their wings, and vice versa.

3. (intransitive, with on or upon) To be intellectually contingent from; to stem from.
   • 1989, Antonin Scalia, Jett v. Dallas Independent School District:

     Parts I and IV of the Court's opinion, and Part III except insofar as it relies upon legislative history

4. (transitive, obsolete) To fasten, fix, attach

   Therefore [they] must needs relye their faithe upon the sillie Ministers faithlesse fidelitie.

5. (transitive, obsolete) To bring together again; to rally.

   Petrius, that was a noble knyght, and bolde and hardy, relied his peple a-boute hym,

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• Ryle, lyre