contingent
contingent 英 [kənˈtɪndʒənt] 美 [kənˈtɪndʒənt]
adj. 因情况而异的；不一定的；偶然发生的；可能的；依情况而定的；偶然的；[逻]有条件的 n. 分遣队；偶然事件；分得部分；代表团
名词复数:contingents
- The adjective contingent can be used to describe when something can occur only when something else does first. Making money is contingent on finding a good-paying job.
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- adj. 因情况而异的；不一定的；偶然发生的；可能的；依情况而定的；偶然的；[逻]有条件的
- n. 分遣队；偶然事件；分得部分；代表团
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1. For it is about our actions that we deliberate and inquire, and all our actions have a contingent character; hardly any of them are determined by necessity.
因为这与我们思考和调查的行为有关，而我们的所有行为都有着偶然性，它们就很难由必然所决定。
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2. Nothing daunted, he allowed me to have my say, then took up his discourse where he had left it, finished it to the last word, saluted me profoundly, and marched off his contingent.
他丝毫也不气馁，让我把话说完后，他从中断的地方接着继续他的演说，直到一字不落地全部说完了，他才向我深深地鞠了一躬，带着他的小分队离开。
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3. The ones who are not happy have postponed their happiness, they have made it contingent upon some event, some amount of money, a certain status… They have put certain limitations on their happiness.
那些不幸福的人延迟了他们自己的幸福，他们的幸福需要条件，一些重大事件，一定数量的金钱，一定的地位，等等。 他们为自己的幸福设了限。
- contingent (adj.) late 14c., "depending upon circumstances, not predictable with certainty, provisionally liable to exist," from Old French contingent or directly from Latin contingentem (nominative contingens) "happening; touching," in Medieval Latin "possible, contingent," present participle of contingere "to happen to one, befall, come to pass," originally "to touch" (see contact (v.)).
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