reliance

noun

1. certainty based on past experience

e.g. he wrote the paper with considerable reliance on the work of other scientists
he put more trust in his own two legs than in the gun

Synonym: trust

2. the state of relying on something

1. 依赖；依靠
A person's or thing's reliance on something is the fact that they need it and often cannot live or work without it.

e.g. ...the country's increasing reliance on foreign aid.
这个国家日益依赖外国援助

1. 依賴：4.依赖(reliance)-因果关系. 因果关系是归责的基础和前提. 责任自负原则要求任何人仅对自己的行为承担责任. 严格地说,因果关系本身并不产生民事责任问题,需要证明的是诸如被告对原告义务的存在,注意义务的违反和为法律认可的损失等因素的存在.