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词汇 contingently
释义 contingently
adverb
uk /kənˈtɪn.dʒənt.li/ us /kənˈtɪn.dʒənt.li/
in a way that depends on something else in the future in order to happen:
If they default on their debt, our firm will become contingently liable.
She argues that parents should respond contingently to their children's positive and negative behaviour.
This sort of statement only holds true contingently on our experience of the world.
She would receive a second payment contingently upon her getting a divorce from her husband.
Real life usually unfolds haphazardly and contingently.
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