依靠，指望：指对某人或某事有信心，相信他/它会提供帮助或支持。
指望，期待：指对某事有期望或希望，相信它会发生或实现。
count on // [ counting counted counts ]
动词词组 If you count on something or count upon it, you expect it to happen and include it in your plans. 指望
What they did not know was how much support they could count on from Democrats.
他们不知道能够指望从民主党人那里得到多少支持。
动词词组 If you count on someone or count upon them, you rely on them to support you or help you. 依靠
Don't count on Lillian.
别依靠莉莲了。
指望
... count 和上述两个词没有什么关系，count 的意思是：计算、计数（两个解释都可以既做动词又做名词）。也有认为的意思（作动词）。还可以做为“伯爵”这个名词。 count on 指望；依靠 count for 有价值，有重要性 ...
家庭教育倡导者说，也许会这样，但不要有什么指望(count on)。家庭教育者反对(oppose)公立学校教育体系(system)，因为他们深信(conviction)，他们的教育方法是最好的—不论他们的方法是受宗...
... carry out彻底体现，执行；使成为事实 count on寄托；期待，期望 cover up掩饰，掩盖 ...
指望；依靠
Can I count on your loyalty?
我能指望你对我忠诚吗？
We can't count on the good weather lasting.
我们不能指望这样好的天气会持久。
We can't count on this warm weather lasting.
我们不能指望这暖和的天气会持久。
I count on the reputation of our purveyors that we have known, longer than I have been alive.
VOA : standard.2010.05.08
Because of that you can't count on molecules moving rapidly over the size of a cell that's ten to 30 Microns in diameter.
因此不要对生物大分子能在,直径十到三十微米的,细胞里高速穿行抱有任何指望
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You can always count on seeing tourist on the train with an American Girl bag or an American Girl box
你总是可以在火车上看到拿着“美国女孩”的包和盒子的游客，
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Everyone can count on France, he said - and France knows it can count on its NATO allies.
VOA : standard.2009.09.10
They count on this festival to provide funding for all the projects they do throughout the year.
VOA : standard.2010.06.07
But if you have a five-year horizon, you can't count on the next five years being great.
What I used to count on for downtime no longer has so much down in it.
So count on working conditions in at least some of these factories to get better however slowly.