tend
英 [tend]
美[tɛnd]
- vi. 趋向，倾向；照料，照顾
- vt. 照料，照管
实用场景例句
- Women tend to live longer than men.
- 女人往往比男人长寿。
牛津词典
- When I'm tired, I tend to make mistakes.
- 我累了就容易出错。
牛津词典
- It tends to get very cold here in the winter.
- 这里冬天往往会很冷。
牛津词典
- People tend to think that the problem will never affect them.
- 人们往往认为这个问题绝不会影响到他们。
牛津词典
- His views tend towards the extreme.
- 他的观点趋于偏激。
牛津词典
- Prices have tended downwards over recent years.
- 近年来物价趋于下降。
牛津词典
- a shepherd tending his sheep
- 照看羊的牧人
牛津词典
- Doctors and nurses tended the injured.
- 医生和护士护理受伤者。
牛津词典
- well-tended gardens
- 精心照料的花园
牛津词典
- Ambulance crews were tending to the injured.
- 救护车上的救护人员在照料受伤者。
牛津词典
- He had a job tending bar in San Francisco.
- 他在旧金山做酒吧服务员。
牛津词典
- A problem for manufacturers is that lighter cars tend to be noisy...
- 制造商们遇到的一个问题是，重量较轻的汽车往往噪音大。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- In older age groups women predominate because men tend to die younger...
- 在老年群体里女性占大多数，因为男性通常不易高寿。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Artistic and intellectual people tend towards left-wing views.
- 搞艺术的人和知识分子容易持“左倾”观点。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- I tend to think that members of parliament by and large do a good job.
- 我个人觉得，议会议员总体上工作还是不错的。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- For years he tended her in her painful illness...
- 多年来她一直受到病痛的折磨，都是他在照料。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- He tends the flower beds and evergreens that he has planted in the driveway.
- 他打理着他栽在车道两旁的花坛和常青树。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- In our culture, girls are brought up to tend to the needs of others...
- 在我们的文化里，女孩从小就学着照料别人。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- She hurried away to pour more coffee and tend to the grill.
- 她匆忙走开，去添加咖啡和照看烤架。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- FRANCESCA : If that happens, you have to decide. Because I can't.
- 弗朗西斯卡: 如果真是那样, 你得做决定, 因为我不能.
期刊摘选
- He means no harm by saying what he thinks, but people tend to be upset by it.
- 他想到什么就说什么,并无恶意, 但人们听了心里总是不舒服.
《简明英汉词典》
- Bulky clothes tend to hinder movement.
- 肥大的衣服常常碍手碍脚.
《简明英汉词典》
- He'd got a way of his own and I tend to take after him.
- 他有自己的一套方式,我想效仿他.
《简明英汉词典》
- Officials tend to tilt toward secrecy from a parochial view of their responsibilities.
- 官吏出于狭隘的责任观念往往倾向于保密.
《简明英汉词典》
- In course of time old customs and observances tend to fall into neglect.
- 随着时间的推移,旧风俗习惯有被忽略的趋势.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- Schools tend to perpetuate the myth that boys are better at sport than girls.
- 学校往往会助长男孩比女孩体育强这一错误观念的延续.
《简明英汉词典》
同义词辨析
nurse, tend, foster, cultivate, cherish
这些动词均含"照料，培育"之意。
nurse： 通常指对无力自顾的婴儿、病人等进行照料或护理。
tend： 指出于责任心、博爱心而不是私人感情去对人或物进行照顾。
foster： 指对孩子的关心、鼓励、供养及抚养其成长；也指鼓励、促进事物的增长与发展。
cultivate： 具体意义指耕耘、培育植物；抽象意义指培养兴趣或向往的理想事物。
cherish： 强调抚育或爱抚。