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Reliance is the state of needing someone or something, and leaning on them so that if they fail, you are in trouble. A town’s reliance on one factory, a patient’s reliance on a medicine, a child’s reliance on their parents — in each case, the first cannot easily stand alone. It is a little formal; in speech people often say we depend on or we need. We almost always say reliance on, not reliance to. Though actually, reliance is not a warm feeling of trust. You can have reliance on a machine you do not even like. And it is not reliability: reliability is whether the thing you lean on will hold; reliance is the leaning itself. One names the support, the other names your need for it.
From the word’s history
From rely + -ance.
由 rely「依靠」加 -ance 組成。
組成rely + -ance. The ending -ance turns the verb into a noun for the state of relying.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
reliancenoun/ɹɪˈlaɪ.əns/
- 1
The act of relying (on or in someone or something); trust.
- Your reliance on his expertise may be misplaced.
- […] his days and times are past And my reliances on his fracted [i.e. broken] dates Have smit my credit:
- 2
The condition of being reliant or dependent.
- The industry is working to phase out its reliance on fossil fuels.
- […] he contended that habitual reliance on engine power causes a pilot to lose his ability to make a forced landing “deadstick” if necessary.
- 3
datedAnything on which to rely; ground of trust.
- The boat was a poor reliance.
- Thou wert once the chiefe pillar of my posterity, and the whole reliance of my name:
- 4
A person or thing which relies on another.
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